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In the article the author studies the basic parameters, institutions and mechanisms of global security in the modern era: the essence and the effectiveness, and also identifies current problems of providing global security in view of the processes of increasing globalization and determines the significance of education as a crucial factor of ensuring global security. Modern challenges and threats are ranked and categorized by the content, degree, level, vectors, in close relationship with the geopolitical coordinates. Their detailed monitoring is the cornerstone basis of the process of forming of the universal global security structure. The specificity of the global security is a large-scale decomposition of the planetary geopolitical space, opening a new era in the world development, the parameters of which are only being formed at the moment. Note that the global, regional, national security, in addition to the traditional military aspect, includes the factors such as economic, environmental, energy, information, food, population, radiation, ethno-cultural safety, as well as the safety against the spreading of infectious diseases, etc. A specificity of the approach to understanding global security is that the priority is given to the interests of humans in close relationship and interdependence with the problems of education. Russia's security is provided, in particular, by the means of education policy, which is regarded as a special sphere of the state and local government. Educational policy defines the strategy and tactics of education. Currently the process of integration of the domestic education into the global educational system is underway. In the context of integration and globalization, the role of education in addressing the problems of modernization of Russia and its national security increases and becomes a priority. Undoubtedly, the typical trend of modern development is the aspiration of countries to deepen the international integration processes. The experience of training specialists and their international upbringing, which was accumulated by the socialist countries, is of great importance for these processes. Thus, an important role in today's global security is played not only by multilateral mechanisms and international institutions with a mandate of ensuring the international security, the prevention and resolution of conflicts, but also by such institutions as education.