In the last decade, Algerian foreign diplomacy was mostly dead, because all control over it belonged to the President, asserts Yahia H. Zoubir, Senior Professor of International Studies; Director of Research in Geopolitics, KEDGE Business School, Visiting Fellow at the Brooking Doha Center. Recently, when the country had become fully aware of its losses at the world stage and the African continent, in particular, it began to return to foreign politics and to restart its diplomatic machinery.