Аннотация:The enhancing of security both on the global and regional levels forms a key problem of the international relations system as a whole. The end of the “cold war”, the dissipation of the Warsaw Treaty Organization together with the further development of globalization which leads to the strengthening of interdependency between states and forces the global world to solve the arisen problems by joint efforts of the whole world community – all these facts and tendencies however does not guarantee the solution to all the security problems. The events of last ten years indicate that the today’s world hasn’t become more stable and safe. Moreover as new forms of modern weapons appear, nuclear and other types of mass destruction arms proliferate, terrorism and ecocatastrophes spread all over the world the problem of enhancing security for people on the international plan becomes more and more acute. So the question of how we have to explicate the term of “international security” arises.