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The theory of international relations as well as the theory and practice of social work owe much to the concept of "security". "Security" is a fundamental value of any contemporary social system. Traditionally speaking, function of the attribute that qualified the concept, we understood the particular localization of a certain study within the area of social sciences: international security or regional security made recourse to domains completely different from social security, food security or human security. After 1990, the field of international relations is confronted with the new reality that military threats no longer define the international arena post-Cold War. The result is the broadening of the concept of security and, at the same time, the discovery and conceptualization of the values of human security, which are values pertaining to the field of social work par excellence.
Keywords: security studies, human security, international relations theory, social work
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