Q In this 3-part Comparative National Security Project, you must Choose a Country to Research and eventually Compare with the United States. In this first assignment due at the end of Module 2, you are to select the country you will work on for the rest of the term and begin your analysis of it. As you consider what country you will select, OPEN this attached country research guide downloadand begin to review the relevant documents on your country of choice (e.g., the CIA World Factbook report, the State Department’s Background Notes or Bilateral Relations Facts sheet etc.). As you explore your country, you should consult freely with your professor as much as you need to. If you are experiencing difficulty choosing, your professor will help and assign a country to you. No later than the early part of this module, you should be in contact with your professor about your country of choice. As you approach your initial research on your country, think about what interests you about this country. What are its key security characteristics that attract you to studying it more, and contrasting it with the US in the final paper. For example, is the country a great power (Links to an external site.), or is it a lesser, regional power? Does the country have both land and sea capabilities, interests and threats (Links to an external site.) arrayed against it, or is it more isolated and potentially more secure? How might national security be different for land powers compared to sea powers (Links to an external site.)? Similarly, how vast are the interests the country must defend and promote in the world? Are these more economic than military, and how might these be separated, if at all? Finally, does the country make national security decisions more as a unitary state than as an unwieldy representative democracy? For example, how difficult is the choice to go to war or to join an alliance with another country, how many layers or avenues of policy making must a state’s leaders go through to achieve some desired outcome of its “leadership”?