Abstract
Countries in the world need cooperation to solve global problems, and Germany with its strongly outward-oriented economy has a particular interest in world-wide cooperation. The generally accepted human rights seem to provide a solid ground for this, but at a closer look, the area of generally shared values is much smaller. In particular, Germany with its moral concepts is not representative of the world. This applies to several values and consequently can also be seen in aggregated analyses. The number of partners sharing the same values is rare beyond Europe.