Brookings Institution Senior Fellow Constanze Stelzenm\xfcller discusses how domestic problems have led to disruptions in foreign policy\u2014turning partners into rivals. At home, many democracies are struggling with balance: between national security and privacy, the political center and the peripheries, or direct and representative democracy. Stelzenm\xfcller goes into detail about the many aspects we should re-evaluate, particularly in Germany, France, the UK, and the United States. And she relishes the challenge for her generation to preserve democracy for the future.