CALL FOR PAPERS
Telecommunications Policy.  Focus Theme "Implications for telecom networks
of national security and law enforcement policies"



CALL FOR PAPERS
Telecommunications Policy special issue.  Focus Theme "Implications for
telecom networks of national security and law enforcement policies"


The special issue will be devoted to an important development in telecom
policy that has received relatively little attention: the drive for
deregulation and the implementation of "minimalist" state solutions
prevalent in the telecom sector for some time and their contrast to the
"maximalist" state model that has emerged in the domain of telecom
surveillance and security policy.  In the last decade, law enforcement and
national security agencies have increasingly pursued an interventionist
strategy in the telecom sector (intervention in the network design process,
enhanced access to network information and attempts to restrict encryption
are examples).  Papers that explore why these tensions exist and the various
implications of these developments for those in the telecom, security and
internet sectors as well as their regulation and beyond are particularly
welcome.  Papers that extend analyses to the post-September 11 context are
encouraged.


Manuscript deadline: October 15, 2003. Authors should contact guest editor
Peter Shields, Associate Professor in the Department of Telecommunications
at Bowling Green State University, USA, [log in to unmask]


Telecom Policy accepts papers between 3000 and 6000 words in length
concerned with the political, economic and social aspects of
telecommunications, which will be reviewed on the 'double blind' system by
anonymous referees.