The Third Way is a political position advocating a varying synthesis of center-right and center-left policies.

Third Way may also refer to:

Political ideologies

  • Syncretic politics, politics outside of the conventional left–right political spectrum
  • Third International Theory, a style of government proposed by Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi
  • Third Position, a set of neo-fascist ideologies

Political organizations

  • Third Way (France), a Third Position organization in France
  • Third Way (Israel), a political party in Israel active during the late 1990s
  • Third Way (Palestinian authority), a left-wing liberal Palestinian political party in the Palestinian National Authority
  • Third Way (UK organisation), a right-wing think tank in the United Kingdom that was founded as a political party
  • Third Way (United States), a public policy think tank in the United States
  • Third Way (Germany), a far right, neo-Nazi political party in Germany
  • Third Way (Polish political alliance), a centrist electoral coalition in Poland

Publications

  • Third Way (magazine), a British Christian current affairs magazine
  • The Third Way: The Renewal of Social Democracy, a 1998 book by the British sociologist Anthony Giddens
  • Schröder-Blair paper, a 1999 paper titled "Europe: The Third Way" in English

Other

  • Socialist self-management, an economical model different from capitalism and Soviet Union socialism, adopted in Yugoslavia
  • From Aquinas' "Five Ways" arguments for God's existence: the Third Way, the argument from contingency

See also

  • The III. Path, a German neo-Nazi political party
  • Third Ways, a 2007 book by Allan C. Carlson
  • The 3rd Alternative, a 2011 book by Stephen Covey