The developed world has many different names among different people. To Mr. Barnett and Mr. Friedman it is called the “functioning core” or “core” and the “world of order.” Of course the name can only exist with the meaning behind it and both of theses names stand for the privileged, the stable, and working states of the world. These two men have different names and slightly different meanings and policies to deal with the under-privileged states of the world.

Mr. Barnett’s “non-integrating gap” or “gap” consists of failed states and war torn area

Mr. Barnett also has a third category; it is called the “seam states.” These “seam states” are states that are not quite “core or “gap” states. These states have characteristics of both “gap” and “core” states and could at any time fall into the “gap.” The real concern about these states is that they provide a gateway for the religious fundamentalists to access the “core” states. For the most part “seam” states border both “core” and “gap” states. This third category calls for the “core” states to help shed the “gap” like characteristics of these states and bring them into the core before major problems occur.

As history shows the French threat to veto a UN resolution backing military intervention in Iraq did little in curbing the U.S.’s determination to invade, but it did put France on the international stage. With its anti-war/American attitude throughout the preparations for and eventual war in Iraq, the French came out as the good natured child who stuck up for the innocent child who was being held up for his lunch money by the big American bully. That view does not, however, go much farther than the borders of France. Mr. Friedman believes this opposition by France towards the US is a kind of jealousy. This jealousy or urge to be different that the French have is what bothers Mr. Friedman, the fact that France is willing to deal with its image crisis more than it is willing to deal with the lives of millions of people. Mr. Friedman proposes revoking France’s permanent status on the UN Security Council and replacing it with a more serious and regionally relevant nation.

The international antics of France do appear to be on the decline with the emergence of a more unified Europe. With the European Union working to put together a constitutio

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