Negotiating the Impossible

6FIRST-MOVER ADVANTAGE

The Unbroken Peace Treaty

CAN YOU NAME THIS country? The longest standing treaty in United States history is with this country. The first building on foreign soil ever acquired by the United States is located there—and that building is also the only place outside of the United States to have ever been designated a National Historic Landmark.¹ This country has been a prominent supporter of the United States in its “war” against terrorism, but military cooperation between the two is not a recent development—soldiers from this country fought alongside American forces in World War I, and it emphatically sided with the United States in its fight against the Confederate states during the American Civil War. Likewise, the United ...