At the Treaty of Versailles there was a significant debate between the French and the Anglo-Americans over what sort of army the Germans should have. The French thought that a conscript army should be utilized by the Germans to constrain them, as a conscript army would preclude them from having...
Europe (or the "West" if we want to include European descended nations like the US), has been the hegemonic power that has largely imposed its system of institutions and certain "universal" beliefs during the last few centuries (some of which existing prior to the European world-system in...