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.