ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the use of network policy as a means to provide network control in the field of national security in general and counter-terrorism in particular. Network policy is important to set out the objectives of a network and the ways in which members are expected to operate in a network. The chapter examines the ways in which the tensions are managed in security networks. These include the use of more policy to establish better selection mechanisms over information sharing and through negotiations between network members on the interpretation of policy. As Kenis and Provan argues that policy is an important component of network control' in terms of its capacity to direct the activities of network members in accordance with network goals. The requirements imposed on the communication of information increases the efficiency of networks, this interviewee argues, because they establish that certain categories of information can be shared with certain categories of people.
