This article is part of the special section titled From the Iron Curtain to the Schengen Area, guest edited by Wolfgang Mueller and Libora Oates-Indruchová. The cooperation between German and Polish border police from the middle of the 1990s to 2007 is characterized by a striking paradox: border guards on both sides claim their working styles are incompatible with one another while in most cases they cooperate very well. Yet, as this article argues, the border guards employ strategies of boundary-drawing and self-staging that help them cope with the asymmetry they encounter when cooperating with the “other.” German and Polish border guards develop informal strategies of action and communication that rest upon a joint professional culture, leading to mutual trust and solidarity and a congruence of subjective professional honor and official mandate. Yet, this win–win situation runs the risk of emphasizing police-cultural aspects that focus on security while leaving the underlying East–West asymmetry untouched.

中文翻译：

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当世界碰撞时：在德波边境谈判职业道德

本文是由沃尔夫冈·穆勒（Wolfgang Mueller）和里波拉·奥茨（LiboraOates-Indruchová）编辑的主题为“从铁幕到申根区”的特殊部分的一部分。从1990年代中期至2007年中，德国和波兰边境警察之间的合作存在一个明显的悖论：双方的边防警卫声称他们的工作风格相互矛盾，而在大多数情况下他们合作得很好。然而，正如本文所述，边防部队采用了划界和自我登台的策略，以帮助他们应对与“其他人”合作时遇到的不对称现象。德国和波兰边防军制定了基于共同专业文化的非正式行动和沟通策略，从而导致相互信任和团结，以及主观专业荣誉和官方授权的一致。