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Anthony Giddens is the Director of the London School of Economics and Political Science and belongs to the most important personalities of contemporary world sociology. He is the author or editor over thirty books. Until today his work, and most of all the book Beyond Left and Right (Polity Press, 1994), has influenced discussions on searching new political patterns and renewal of social democracy in many countries across the world. Giddens is often presented as the …

…the positive approach to globalization as a phenomenon of broad importance (it is not only a global marketplace), maintaining social conditions defined by Giddens as "no rights without responsibilities" and "no authority without democracy" and in the attempt of coordination of modernisation (ecological modernisation, modernisation of social democracy) with the philosophic conservatism. In conclusion, Giddens tries to conciliate social democratic and neoliberal approaches in the framework of his new version of the Third Way politics.