This Master's Thesis examines the diplomatic relations between the BritishEmpire and the Burmese. The main axis on which Master Thesis will move isthe Treaty of Yandabo, signed on February 24, 1826, which ended the FirstAnglo-Burmese War. However, the terms and consequences of the agreementwill not be considered. The Master Thesis will examine the factors thatinfluenced the negotiation process until the signing of the treaty, such as theceremonies and unofficial non-statal actors, as translators, highlightingfeatures that the research usually tends to overlook. In that way, it will attemptto render a wider picture regarding the diplomatic relations of the two empires.The war between the British and the Burmese empire is not simply a warbetween two opposing states, it is also a conflict of different worldviews. Thus,in order to highlight the cultural differences, the cultural misunderstandingsare analyzed as these were a crucial factor for the creation and reproduction ofprejudices of one side towards the other. These prejudices hindered thecreation and development of diplomatic contacts due to the climate of mistrustand by extension the lack of essential communication that characterized therelations between the two empires. Highlighting the fact that diplomacy is nota network of impersonal contacts dominated exclusively by the interests ofeach side.