Introduction - transforming the social democratic left: the challenges to third way politics in the age of globalization, Oliver Schmidtke. Organizing the economy in the age of globalization - the unsurmountable challenge for the social democratic Left?: the comparative political economy of the "Third Way", Peter Hall; the state and globalization, Saskia Sassen. What is the Third Way? The role of social democratic regimes in comparative perspective: third ways in Britain and Europe, Stephen Driver and Luke Martell; D'Alwma's dilemmas - third way, Italian style, Vincent Della Sala; the third way in France - tertium non datur?, Serenella Sferza. Culture, ideas and political space: where does the third way come from and where will it go?: still a third way, or, at least any alternatives to world capitalism? some remarks on the fundamental split between the intellectual critique of capitalism and real political powers from the "anti-revisionist left" to the "new centre", Michael Th. Greven; from the "anti-revisionist left" to the "new centre". Reflections on the ancestry of "modernized" social democracy, Frank Unger; beyond the politics of nostalgia, Warren Magnusson. Third way politics in practice - new political spaces for democratic renewal?: urban governance restructuring - a template for new progressive politics or the endrum of neo-liberal urbanism, Roger Keil; federalism and the third way - possibilities for post-parliamentary democratic governance, Thomas Hueglin.