Giddens argues that the most important current development is globalization, in the face of which both left- and right-wing ideas have limited application. Giddens thus advocates a "third way" between left and right.
他認為現今最重要的社會現象是「全球化」，而面對全球化的趨勢，傳統的左派或右派理論與主張都有極限，紀登斯因此提出了超越左派與右派的「第三條路」。