Introduction / George Kassimeris -- Terrorism: 'the great game' / Martin A. Miller -- The Aldo Moro murder case as politics / Richard Drake -- Playing politics with terror: the case of Fujimori's Peru / Jo-Marie Burt -- The use and abuse of terror: the construction of a false narrative on the domestic terror threat / Peter Oborne -- Britain and the IRA: legacies of restraint / Jonathan Stevenson -- A nested game: playing politics with terrorism in the United States / Leonard Weinberg and William Eubank -- The politics of fear: writing the terrorist threat in the War on Terror / Richard Jackson -- Politics vs terrorism: the Madrid case / Javier Jordan and Nicola Horsburgh -- A conjurer's game: Vladimir Putin and the politics of presidential prestidigitation / Robert Saunders -- A return to the Middle Ages? Australia's counterterrorism law and policy in a post-9/11 world / Christopher Michaelsen -- Talking terror: hype, facts and the media / Mark Huband -- The terrorism industry: the profits of doom / John Mueller -- The dangers of playing politics with terrorism / Paul Wilkinson.