报告产生于为期七个月的德国外交政策和安全界的内部讨论，认为德国的当前价值和利益是致力于“人类尊严、自由、民主、法治精神，以及基于普世规范的国际秩序 ” 。
The report – the product of several months of debate within the German foreign-policy and security community – identifies Germany’s current values and interests as a commitment to “human dignity, freedom, democracy, the rule of law, and to an international order that is based on universal norms.”