"The logc of securitization will be examined here in the context of the government's security and defence policy reports, employing the methods of agenda-setting theory, framing and process tracing. In temporal terms, the work will concentrate on the period from 11.9.2001 onwards. The process of constructing threat perceptions will be understood as being expressive of continuity and as taking place constantly, and interest will be focused in the first instance on the threat perceptions of actors external to Finland's security policy mechanism who may be assumed to exercise influence on and interact with the content of the country's perceived threats. ... Secondly, the situation at the beginning of the new millennium would seem in the light of Finland's social and security policy discussions to have been full of threats of one kind or another, and an attempt will be made here to ascertain how certain matters came to be defined officially as part of Finland's security policy, i.e. as publicly acknowledged threats to the state."--P. 10-11.