A Foreign Policy Horseshoe

Moderate Extremes against a Fanatical Center

As a general account of politics, Horseshoe Theory may or may not be adequate.¹ Are the “extreme right” and “extreme left” really closer to one another than a linear political continuum suggests? In some ways, yes; in others, no. It depends, doesn’t it? Most fundamentally, Horseshoe Theory presupposes the old Left–Center–Right continuum, a relic of the s…