One year after Germany and the United States precipitously withdrew from Afghanistan, Islam expert and ethnologist Susanne Schröter from the Goethe University in Frankfurt takes stock. In her new book “Global Failed? The West Between Presumption and Self-Hate” she writes about Western values. In an interview with stern, she spoke about the double standards of Western nations and is of the opinion that we must not interfere in the internal affairs of other countries. If we want to spread democracy, then we have to promote it. The best figurehead: a West that takes its own values ​​seriously.

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