ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at specific US Russian tensions which still affect the Black Sea region. US Russian tensions over NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) enlargement might be primarily due to Russia's fears that enlargement is an encroachment onto its sphere of influence and that it could be left in isolation. The tension of NATO enlargement is one of the foremost tensions that have affected EU security policies regarding the Black Sea region. US Russian tensions over NATO enlargement might be primarily due to Russia's fears that enlargement is an encroachment onto its sphere of influence and that it could be left in isolation. The US may well want to be capable of defending itself and its allies from further nuclear proliferation as well as from existing nuclear armed states such as China, North Korea, India and Pakistan. Nevertheless there was much hostility from Russia regarding the Bush plan which created further US Russian tensions in the Black Sea region.
