Third way

The "third way" is a political term applied to a variety of "third choice" options that some offer as an alternative to situtions which may otherwise appear polarized.

Examples of "third ways" include:

• A "third way" economic system that is neither communist or capitalist
• A "third way" approach to Cold War-era foreign policy, siding with neither the US or the Soviet Union (this in turn spawned the phrase third world)
• A "third way" approach to the concept of Church and State, neither theocratic or atheist

In the late 1990s, several groups independently began using the term Radical middle to refer to certain kinds of third way thinking.

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• Time Magazine called Apple's iTunes Music Store a "third way'" alternative to the free downloads of Napster and the litigation of the RIAA