While the ability to conduct diplomatic relations is seen as an exclusive attribute of sovereign states, the participation of local and regional governments in international relations is becoming increasingly important worldwide. As a result of the transnationalization of the world economy and the increase in interconnectivity, paradiplomacy is rapidly gaining institutional and legal recognition by states and international organizations in the most diverse geopolitical contexts. Its instrumental value lies in facilitating the representation of local interests on a global scale. It is, by its nature, an international action that does not conflict with the countries' central diplomacy, which has the exclusive prerogative of relations between sovereign states. On the contrary, paradiplomacy, or decentralized diplomacy, is rather a growing and powerful asset of national states as it adds qualitative and quantitative value to their international presence.