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Moritz Baumsteiger
When something decisive happens shortly before the end, things tend to get hectic – this unsurprising finding should apply to both football games and book productions. For the authors, who have been designing, researching and writing non-fiction books for months in view of the soccer World Cup that is about to begin in Qatar, the surprising turnaround dates to the March 20, 2022: Robert Habeck has his head bowed in front of the Qatari trade minister in Doha. It is better to do gas deals with a non-democratic state with human rights problems than with an authoritarian state that is waging a war of aggression that violates international law, as the German Vice Chancellor put it.