Machine derived contents note: Part One: Political Violence And The News Media -- Introduction -- The Interpretation of Violence -- 'Terrorism', the Media and the Liberal-Democratic State -- A Critique of the Orthodoxy -- The Media Politics of Siege Management -- The Case of the Iranian Embassy Siege -- Part Two: Fighting The Old Ideological Enemy -- Introduction -- On the Shape and Scope of Counter-Insurgency Thought -- Some Aspects of Communism as a Cultural Category - with Philip Elliott -- The Rise and Fall of a Political Slogan - with Philip Elliott -- The Case of 'Eurocommunism' -- Part Three: Problems Of Collective Identity -- Introduction -- On National Identity (I) -- Cultural Politics and the Mediologists -- On National Identity (II) -- Collective Identity in Social Theory -- No Guide for the Perplexed -- Collective Identities in a Changing Europe