Transgression as a Rule: German-Polish Cross-border Cooperation, Border Discourse and EU-enlargementLIT Verlag Münster, 2007 - 279 pages Whereas currently, German-Polish relations are marked by irritations, the previous phase of politics and discourse from 1990 leading up to the EU-accession of Poland was marked by an increasing stress on Europe in both countries. This was connected with changing practices of cross-border cooperation as well as a change in academic border studies. Transgression as a Rule argues that resulting from this, cross-border cooperation has become a rule. The actors negotiate new, contradictory spaces for their actions: supported by the state but partly uncomfortable with it, drawing on the powerful discourse of cooperation and trying to escape from it. Their practices can also inform the practices of border studies. |
Contents
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The histories of the German and Polish Others | 37 |
Methodology | 80 |
GermanPolish politics in the 1990s | 98 |
German discourse on Poland | 114 |
Polish discourse on Germany | 150 |
The micropolitics of GermanPolish relations | 194 |
Crossborder cooperation and the rule | 261 |
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Page 16 - It would be futile to assert that an exact Science of Frontiers has been or is ever likely to be evolved: for no one law can possibly apply to all nations or peoples, to all Governments, all territories, or all climates. The evolution of Frontiers is perhaps an art rather than a science, so plastic and malleable are its forms and manifestations.
Page 18 - Frontiers are indeed the razor's edge on which hang suspended the modern issues of war or peace, of life or death to nations.
Page 19 - ... they will hardly succeed— patience and tact, initiative and self-restraint, these are the complex qualifications of the modern school of pioneers. To these attainments should be added— for the ideal Frontier officer — a taste for languages, some scientific training, and a powerful physique. The work, which he may be called upon to perform, may be that of the explorer or the administrator or the military commander, or all of them at the same time. The soldier, perhaps more often than the...
Page 5 - The point, in brief, is to transform the critique conducted in the form of necessary limitation into a practical critique that takes the form of a possible transgression.