I have been wanting to post this since last tuesday but I couldnt find the 2 urls, I just had the text.
The first one describes the Prisoner Dilemma which was a game invented in the 50s at Princeton, and is a way of describing the relationship between two opposing parties
http://www.spectacle.org/995/pd.html
The second one describes how this dilemma works for terrorism and other related areas.
http://www.spectacle.org/995/scorp.html
Its a really great read, so if you have 10 minutes take a look.