Vol. 3, Issue 7, Part Q (2017)

Abstract
Following the decline of the USSR regime, the newly five independent states of Central Asia found themselves in a new era of globalisation with new world order of liberalized economic system. The major influence of these changes occurred with the increasing emotions of nationalism in the states that growing stress over shared water resources. Since the independence, the issue of trans-boundary water management has developed into one of the most complicated security problems among all states. The inequitable water allocation and existing policies and principles of that address the severity of the water issues and conflict in the region. Taking the region of Central Asia as a unit of study, the proposed study offers a model of relationship between water resources and its social, political, economic and environmental patterns in Central Asia. This article analyses the efforts of CIS States to shape a regional water system in the region. It explores the role of internal and external dynamics on regional cooperation over water resources within the context of a regional security complex. This article explores the major initiatives taken by all CIS states after their independence on trans-boundary Rivers. The paper shows that, even though the Central Asian states agreed in 1992 to continue with the basic water-sharing principles but there is still need for new inclusive agreements had to be made.