It may have been fashionable in many intellectual circles over the years to declare "Yankee go home." And this may now actually be happening. If it is, the world may realize that the United States is a superpower and one of the only saviors of the nation-state. It is certainly more desirable compared to that which may emerge in its place: Increasingly weakened nation-states, emboldened non-state actors and U.S. nationalism defending its own interests at the expense of global stability.

Joergen Oerstroem Moeller, is visiting senior research fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore, and adjunct professor at the Copenhagen Business School. Dr. Terence Chong is a fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore.