This two-volume book considers from a risk perspective the current phenomenon of the new
Alt-Right authoritarianism and whether it represents 'real' democracy or an unacceptable
hegemony potentially resulting in elected dictatorships and abuses as well as dysfunctional
government. Contributing authors represent an eclectic range of disciplines including
cognitive organizational and political psychology sociology history political science
international relations linguistics and discourse analysis and risk analysis. The Alt-Right
threats and risk exposures whether to democracy human rights law and order social welfare
racial harmony the economy national security the environment and international relations
are identified and analysed across a number of selected countries. While Vol. 1 (ISBN
978-3-8382-1153-4) focusses on the US Vol. 2 illuminates the phenomenon in the United Kingdom
Austria France Germany Netherlands Norway Italy Hungary and Russia. Potential strategies
to limit the Alt-Right threat are proposed.
