The Threatening Other in the East: Continuities and Discontinuities in Modern German-Polish Relations
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The relationship between (West) Germany and Poland after World War II seems to be utterly deprived of any trace of colonialist domination or dependency. Even if one is willing to characterize Hitler’s brutal occupation of Poland as a form of imperialistic policy in a colonialist tradition the postwar environment of a defeated Germany and the quickly emerging Cold War division of the continent appear to have put an end to any thought about the continuity of this legacy. Recent developments after 1989 and most notably Poland’s membership in the European Union seem to add weight to a reading of German-Polish relations geared toward reconciliation and equal partnership. In short, the dominant reading is that 1945 marked the beginning of an entire new era in the relationship between the two countries in which domination and enmity was replaced by respect and, after the collapse of Communism, a slowly emerging partnership. In this reading, Germany’s relationship with Poland is destined to follow the exemplary rapport that Germany has developed with France since the war. The end of Communism and Poland’s “return to Europe” has generated an environment in which this process is bound to complete its course that had been belated by the divisiveness of the Communist rule in Central Eastern Europe. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.006 | 0.016 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.010 | 0.008 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".