With the expansion of technology that ties geographically diverse people together and with the global economic order that sees corporate enterprises spanning numerous jurisdictions, has the nation-state become unnecessary? Trade agreements, migrants, environmental plans, world health--the challenges we face today are on a global scale and require a supranational global order to organized, investigate, and act upon strategies for human welfare. It seems that the idea of nation-states, at one time with imperialist ambitions, exercising their power beyond their borders has given way to a new global order with no centralized power and no boundaries. In this political economy, do nation states serve any? Could we do without them? Could they, in fact, be problematic, in the sense that they insulate people from efficient and effective socio-political action by narrowing our focus too much?