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In my dissertation I study the development of the concept of internal security in the Finnish state. The research spans from J.V. Snellman's Hegelian philosophy of the state from the time of autonomy to the period of Finnish independence and up to the present day.

My argument is that the internal security policy of the Finnish state is influenced by a particular tradition in which liberal and Hegelian political thinking are combined. This tradition is still reflected today in the Finnish government's internal security strategy and in the guidelines for security policy as well as in public discussions on security policy.

Snellman's philosophy has not previously been studied in the context of security policy, nor has security policy been studied in the Hegelian-Snellmanian tradition. Developments during the Finnish autonomy period of the 19th century's
concrete pre-state structures, but also the features of political culture, were for the main parts transferred to the independent state and the political culture of the independent Finnish state.