Manus I. Midlarsky
Contact Information
Department of Political Science
Rutgers University
89 George Street
New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1411
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Email: midlarsk@rci.rutgers.edu
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Education Northwestern University, Ph.D., 1969, Political Science
Stevens Institute of Technology, M.S., 1963, Physics
The City College of the City University of New York, B.S., 1959, Physical Chemistry
Professional Experience
Moses and Annuta Back Professor of International Peace and Conflict Resolution,
Rutgers University-New Brunswick, 1989-present.
Director, Center for International Relations, University of Colorado at Boulder, 1983-89.
Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Colorado at Boulder,
1974-1989: Associate Professor, 1971-74: Assistant Professor, 1968-71: Instructor, 1967-68.
Visiting Professor and Visiting Research Scientist, Department of Political Science
and Center for Political Studies of the Institute for Social Research,
University of Michigan, 1979-82.
Consultant to the Department of Air Force, Office of Research Analysis, Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico, Summer 1968.
Instructor, Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, Illinois, Summer, 1966.
Grants and Awards
United States Institute of Peace grant of $30,000 in support of the project "Democracy in Peril?: Political Responses to Environmental Threat," 1/97-12/97.
National Science Foundation grant of $48,179 for the University of Colorado contribution to the DDIR (Data Development for International Relations) Project, 1986-89 (with T. Gurr).
National Science Foundation grant of $43,000 in support of project "Stochastic Models of System Transformation and Structural Change," 1983-85.
National Endowment for the Humanities Seminar Director, Summer Seminar for
College Teachers, "Inequality and Contemporary Revolutions," 1/83 - 12/83, awarded $52,257.
National Science Foundation grant of $50,917 in support of project "Conflict Behavior in Weakly Regulated Systems," 1981-83.
National Endowment for the Humanities Seminar Director, Summer Seminar for
College Teachers, "Inequality and Contemporary Revolutions," 1/80 - 12/80, awarded $44,210.
National Science Foundation grant of $55,200 in support of project "Probabilistic Models and Political Behavior," 1973-76.
Research Fellow of the Richardson Institute for Conflict and Peace Research, London, 1977-78.
Faculty Fellowship of the Council on Research and Creative Work of the University of Colorado, 1977-78.
Member, Editorial Board of TheJournal of Politics, 1993-1997.
Member, Editorial Board of The International Studies Quarterly, 1975-80, 1985-90, 2004-present.
Member, Editorial Board of The Western Political Quarterly, 1984-87.
Member, Editorial Board of International Interactions, 1987-1992.
Member, Board of the Institute for the Study of Genocide.
Member, Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society, 1993-present.
Member, New York Academy of Sciences, 1995-present.
National Research Council Cohort of Panelists and Site Visitors, 1988-present.
Who's Who in America, 1982-present.
President of the Conflict Processes Section of the American Political Science Association, 1985-88.
Vice President of the International Studies Association, 1986-87.
President of the International Studies Association, West, 1980-81.
Books and Monographs
The Killing Trap: Genocide, Realpolitik, and Loss in the Twentieth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2005.
Handbook of War Studies II. Edited Volume. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000.
The Evolution of Inequality: War, State Survival, and Democracy inComparative
Perspective. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999.
Inequality, Democracy, and Economic Development. Edited Volume. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
From Rivalry to Cooperation: Russian and American Perspectives on the PostCold-War Era. Edited Volume. New York: HarperCollins, 1994. (with J.A. Vasquez and P. Gladkov.)
The Internationalization of Communal Strife. Edited Volume. London: Routledge, 1992.
Handbook of War Studies: Edited Volume. Boston: Unwin Hyman, 1989. Paperback edition, Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1993.
The Onset of World War. Boston: Unwin Hyman, 1988 (Also Advisory Editor for series titled Studies in International Conflict.)
The Disintegration of Political Systems: War and Revolution in Comparative Perspective. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1986.
Inequality and Contemporary Revolutions. Edited Volume, Monograph Series in World Affairs, Graduate School of International Studies, University of Denver, 1986.
On War: Political Violence in the International System. New York: The Free Press, 1975.
"Theoretical and Empirical Predictions." Office of Aerospace Research, Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico, 1970. (with G. Buck and the collaboration of E. Erb.)
Articles and Book Chapters
“The Demographics of Genocide: Refugees and Territorial Loss in the Mass Murder of European Jewry.” Journal of Peace Research, special issue on demography and conflict, forthcoming 2005.
“Political Theory.” In Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes against Humanity. New York: Macmillan Reference USA, forthcoming 2004.
“Echoes of Genocide: Trauma and Ethnic Identity among European Immigrants.” Humboldt Journal of Social Relations, 28 (forthcoming 2004; with E. Midlarsky).
“Power Laws, Scaling, and Fractals in the Most Lethal International and Civil Wars.” In Paul F. Diehl (ed.), The Scourge of War: New Extensions on an Old Problem. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2004, 3-27 (with C. Cioffi-Revilla).
“Nihilism in Political Chaos: Himmler, bin Laden, and Altruistic Punishment.” Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, 27 (May-June 2004), 187-206.
“Potential Pitfalls of Canadian Foreign Policy.” In Graham F. Walker (ed.), Independence in an Age of Empire: Assessing Unilateralism and Multilateralism. Halifax, Nova Scotia: The Centre for Foreign Policy Studies, Dalhousie University, 2004, 142-46.
“The Impact of External Threat on States and Domestic Societies.” International Studies Review, 5 (December 2003), 13-18, reprinted in Susan Werner, David Davis, and Bruce Bueno de Mesquite (eds.), Dissolving Boundaries (Blackwell, forthcoming 2004).
“Realism and the Democratic Peace: The Primacy of State Security in New Democracies.” In Michael Brecher and Frank Harvey (eds.), Millennial Reflections on International Studies. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2002, 107-30.
"Mature Theories, Second Order Properties, and Other Matters." In J. A. Vasquez (ed.), What Do We Know About War. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2000, 329-34.
"Introduction." In M. I. Midlarsky (ed.), Handbook of War Studies II. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000, xiii-xxii.
"Identity and International Conflict." In M. I. Midlarsky (ed.), Handbook of War Studies II. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000, 25-58.
"Democracy and Islam: Implications for Civilizational Conflict and the Democratic Peace." International Studies Quarterly, 42 (September 1998), 485-511.
"Democracy and the Environment: An Empirical Assessment." Journal of Peace Research, 35 (May 1998), 341-361, reprinted in P. F. Diehl and N. P. Gleditsch (eds.), Environmental Conflict (Westview, 2001), 155-178.
"Introduction." In M. I. Midlarsky (ed.), Inequality, Democracy, and Economic Development. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997, 1-10.
"Environmental Influences on Democracy: Aridity, Warfare, and Land Inequality" (with E. Midlarsky). In M. I. Midlarsky (ed.), Inequality, Democracy, and Economic Development. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997, 45-79.
"Conclusion: Paradoxes of Democracy." In M. I. Midlarsky (ed.), Inequality, Democracy, and Economic Development. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997, 319-26.
"Systemic War in the Former Yugoslavia." In D. Carment and P. James (eds.), Wars in the Midst of Peace: The International Politics of Ethnic Conflict. Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh University Press, 1997.
"Environmental Influences on Democracy: Aridity, Warfare and a Reversal of the Causal Arrow." Journal of Conflict Resolution, 39 (June 1995), 224-262.
"Introduction: Lessons for Peace" (with J. A. Vasquez and P. Gladkov). In M. I. Midlarsky, J. A. Vasquez and P. Gladkov (eds.), From Rivalry to Cooperation: Russian and American Perspectives on the Post-Cold War Era. New York: HarperCollins, 1994, IX-XX.
"Polarity, the Learning of Cooperation, and the Stability of International Systems". In M. I. Midlarsky, J. A. Vasquez and P. Gladkov (eds.), From Rivalry to Cooperation: Russian and American Perspectives on the Post-Cold War Era. New York: HarperCollins, 1994, 26-39.
"Polarity and International Stability," American Political Science Review, 87 (March 1993), 173-180, (with T. Hopf).
"Communal Strife and the Origins of The First World War." In M. I. Midlarsky (ed.) The Internationalization of Communal Strife. London: Routledge, 1992.
"The Origins of Democracy in Agrarian Society: Land Inequality and Political Rights." Journal of Conflict Resolution, 36 (September 1992), 454-477.
"International Structure and the Learning of Cooperation: The Postwar Experience." In C. Kegley (ed.), The Long Postwar Peace. New York: HarperCollins, 1991, 105-122.
"Systemic Wars and Dyadic Wars: No Single Theory." International Interactions, 16 (No. 2, 1990), 171-181. Also editor of Special Issue containing this article.
"A Distribution of Extreme Inequality with Applications to Conflict Behavior: A Geometric Derivation of the Pareto Distribution." Mathematical and Computer Modelling, 12 (No. 4/5, 1989), 577-587.
"Land Inequality and Political Violence." American Political Science Review, 82 (June 1989), 577-595, (with E. Muller, M. Seligson and H. Fu).
"Hierarchical Equilibria and the Long Run Instability of Multipolar Systems." In M. I. Midlarsky (ed.), Handbook of War Studies. Boston: Unwin Hyman, 1989, 55-81.
"Leadership in the International System." In B. Jones (ed.), Leadership and Politics. Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas Press, 1989, 189-207.
"Rulers and the Ruled: Patterned Inequality and the Onset of Mass Political Violence," American Political Science Review, 82 (June 1988), 491-509.
"Theoretical Foundations for the Collection of Major Power-Minor Power War Data." International Interactions, 14 (No. 2, 1988), 187-190.
"A Hierarchical Equilibrium Theory of Systemic War." International Studies Quarterly, 30 (March 1986), 77-105.
"Inequality, the State, and Revolution in Central America." In M. I. Midlarsky, (ed.), Inequality and Contemporary Revolution. Denver, CO: Monograph Series in World Affairs, Graduate School of International Studies, University of Denver, 1986, 11-33 (with K. Roberts).
"Helping During the Holocaust: The Role of Political, Theological and Socioeconomic Identifications, "Humboldt Journal of Social Relations. 13 (Fall-Summer 1985-86), 285-305, (Special Issue).
"International Disputes Data: A Comparison of Approaches and Products," International Studies Notes. 12 (Fall 1985), 1-9 (with H. Alker).
"Class, State, and Revolution in Central America: Nicaragua and El Salvador Compared," Journal of Conflict Resolution, 29 (June 1985), 163-194 (with K. Roberts).
"The Coming of World War I: Conflict Reinforcement in the Period, 1811-1914." In M.D. Ward (ed.), Theories, Models and Simulations. Boulder CO: Westview Press 1985, 419-437.
"Political Stability of Two-Party and Multiparty Systems: Probabilistic Bases for the Comparison of Party Systems." American Political Science Review, 78 (December 1984), 929-951.
"Preventing Systemic War: Crisis Decision-making Amidst a Structure of Conflict Relationships," Journal of Conflict Resolution, 28 (December 1984), 563-584, reprinted in J. A. Vasquez and M. T. Henehan (eds.) The Scientific Study of Peace and War. New York: Lexington, 1992.
"Absence of Memory in the Nineteenth Century Alliance System: Perspectives from Queuing Theory and Bivariate Probability Distributions," American Journal of Political Science, 27 (November 1983), 762-784.
"The Balance of Power as a 'Just' Historical System," Polity, 16 (Winter 1983), 181-200.
" Alliance Behavior and the Approach to World War I." In D. A. Zinnes (ed.), Conflict Processes and the Breakdown of Interstate Systems: Merriam Seminar Series on Research Frontiers. Monograph Series in World Affairs, Vol. 20, Book 2, Graduate School of International Studies, University of Denver, 1983, 61-80.
"Scarcity and Inequality: Prologue to the Onset of Mass Revolution." Journal of Conflict Resolution, 26 (March 1982), 3-38.
"Stochastic Modeling in Political Science Research." In C. Taillie, G.P. Patil, and B. Baldessari (eds.) Statistical Distributions in Scientific Work., Vol.6. Applications in Physical, Social, and Life Sciences. Dordrecht, Holland: D. Reidel, 1981, 131-146.
"Equilibria in the Nineteenth Century Balance of Power System," American Journal of Political Science, 25 (May 1981), 270-296.
"The Revolutionary Transformations of Foreign Policy: Agrarianism and its International Impact" in C. Kegley and P. McGowan (eds.), The Political Economy of Foreign Policy Behavior. (Sage International Yearbook of Foreign Policy Studies). Beverly Hills California, Sage, 1980, 39-62.
"Why Violence Spreads: The Contagion of International Terrorism." International Studies Quarterly, 24 (June 1980). 262-298 (with M. Crenshaw and F.Yoshida).
"Analyzing Diffusion and Contagion Effects: The Urban Disorders of the 1960s." American Political Science Review, 72 (September 1978), 996-1008.
"Size Effects and the Diffusion of Violence in American Cities." Papers, Peace Science Society (International), Vol. 27, 1977.
"Status Inconsistency, Aggressive Attitude, and Helping Behavior," Journal of Personality, 44 (September 1976), (with E. Midlarsky).
"Power and Distance in International Conflict Behavior." In D. A. Zinnes and J. Gillespie (eds.), Mathematical Models in International Relations. New York: Praeger, 1976, 132-155.
"Boundary Permeability as a Condition of Political Violence." Jerusalem Journal of International Relations, 1 (Winter 1976), 364-367.
"A New Role for America in International Affairs." Intellect, 104 (Winter 1976), 364-367.
"Analysis of Research Efficiency: Costs and Information Gain," Psychological Reports, 37 (October 1975), 607-617 (with E. Midlarsky).
"Domestic Social Structure and International Warfare." In M. Nettleship, D. Givens and A. Nettleship (eds.) Correlates of War: Structure and Process. The Hague, Mouton, 1975, 531-548 (with S. Thomas).
"Power, Uncertainty, and the Onset of International Violence." Journal of Conflict Resolution, 18 (September 1974), 395-431.
"Some Determinants of Aiding Under Experimentally-Induced Stress." Journal of Personality, 41 (September 1973). 305-327 (with E. Midlarsky).
"Additive and Interactive Status Effects on Altruistic Behavior." Proceedings 80 thAnnual Convention, American Psychological Association, 245-246 (with E. Midlarsky).
"Periodic Uncertainty and International Crisis: The Arab-Israeli Dispute in Comparative Perspective." In J. D. Ben-Dak (ed.) Methodologiesin Search of Relevance:Assessing Arab-Israeli Conflict Relations. New York: Gordon Breach: Science Publishers, 1975 (with C. Wilkins and N. Andrews).
"Aiding Under Stress" The Effects of Competence, Status and Cost to the Aider," Proceedings 78th Annual Convention. American Psychological Association, 439-440 (with E. Midlarsky).
"Mathematical Models of Instability and a Theory of Diffusion," International Studies Quarterly, 14 (March 1970), 60-84, reprinted in Todd Sandler and Keith Hartley (eds.), Economics of Conflict: Edward Elgar Critical Writings in Economics, 3 Volumes (Aldershot, UK: Edward Elgar, forthcoming 2003).
"Revolution: Eine Quantitative Analyse." In W. Zapf (ed.) Theorien des Socialen Wandels. Koln: Kiepenheuer and Witson, 169, pp. 418-440 (with R. Tanter).
"Conservative Government and the Mental Health Movement: The Politics of Acceptance." Mental Hygiene. 52 (October 1968), 490-492.
"A Theory of Revolution." Journal of Conflict Resolution, 11 (September 1967), 264-280 (with R. Tanter), reprinted in C. E. Welch (ed.), Theory and Practice ofThird World Revolution, in S. Sarkasian (ed.), Revolutionary Guerrilla Warfare, in P. Meadows (ed.), Revolution: A Reader in the Theory of Social Change and in A. Melucci (ed.), Social Movements and Collective Actions.
"Toward a Theory of Political Instability in Latin America." Journal of Peace Research, (No. 3, 1967), 209-227 (with R. Tanter).
"Toward a Theory of Political Instability in Latin America", in I.K. Feierabend, R. L. Feierabend and T. Gurr (eds.), Anger, Violence and Politics. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1971, 242-259 (with R. Tanter, emended version).
Reviewed Essays
"Analyzing Political Conflict." A review of One for All: The Logic of Group Conflict by Russell Hardin, The Rebel's Dilemma by Mark I. Lichbach, and Political Protest and Social Change: Analyzing Politics by Charles F. Andrain and David E. Apter, Journal of Politics, 58 (August 1996), 854-860.
"The Study of Third World Revolutions." A review of The Vogue of Revolution in Poor Countries by Forrest D. Colburn, Mershon International Studies Review, 39 (October 1995), 287-289.
Reviews
The Politics of Collective Violence by Charles Tilly. Journal of Political and Military Sociology 31 (Winter 2003), 316-317.
Justice and Fairness in International Negotiation by Cecilia Albin. Perspectives on Politics, (June 2003).
Democracy and Development: Political Institutions and Well-Being in the World, 1950-1990. by Adam Przeworski, Michael E. Alvarez, José Antonio Cheibub, and Fernando Limongi. Journal of Politics, 64 (May 2002).
Politics and Uncertainty: Theory, Models and Applications by Claudio Cioffi-Revilla, American Political Science Review, 93 (June 1999), 430-431.
International Organizations and Ethnic Conflict by Milton J. Esman and Shibley Telhami (eds.), American Political Science Review, 90 (September 1996), 694-695.
Double-Edged Diplomacy: International Bargaining and Domestic Politics by Peter B. Evans, Harold K. Jacobson, and Robert D. Putnam (eds.), American Political Science Review, 88 (December 1994), 1038-1039.
War and Reason by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and David Lalman, Journal Politics, 55 (November 1993), 1223-1225.
Power in Contemporary International Politics by Michael P. Sullivan, American Political Science Review, 86 (March 1992), 294-295.
Long Cycles: Prosperity & War in the Modern Age by Joshua S. Goldstein and Crisis& War by Patrick James, Journal of Politics, 51 (November 1989), 1065-1069.
Offense and Defense in the International System by George Quester, American Political Science Review, 74 (March 1980), 301-302.
War Without Weapons: Non-Violence in National Defense by Anders Boserup and Andrew Mack, and The Causes of War by Geoffrey Blainey, American Political Science Review,71 (December 1977), 1738-1740.
The Revolutionary Party: Essays in the Sociology of Politics by Feliks Gross Journal of Politics, 37 (August 1975), 838-840.
Conflict Behavior and Linkage Politics Jonathan Wilkenfeld (ed.), Behavioral Science, 19 (July 1974), 272-274.
International Crises: Insights from Behavioral Research by Charles F. Hermann (ed.), Western Political Quarterly, 54 (June 1973), 178-179.
Vietnam: Issues and Alternatives by Walter Isard (ed.), American Political ScienceReview, 64 (June 1970) 668-670.
Some Invited Presentations
“The Demographics of Genocide: Refugees and Territorial Loss in the Genesis of Mass Murder,” invited presentation at the “Workshop on Demography and Conflict,” Oslo, Norway, November 2003.
Core Consultant to the Strategic Assessments Group of the Central Intelligence Agency on the project “Present at the Re-Creation?: World Reactions to US Grand Strategy”, August – November, 2002.
Invited participant in the Thinkers’ Retreat, "Clash of Civilizations?", Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Ottawa, May 2-4, 2002.
"Inequality and Its Consequences," presentation at the Center for International Development and Conflict Management of the University of Maryland and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, conference on "Separating Fact from Fiction after 9/11: Insights from Conflict and International Development Scholarship", February 12, 2002.
"Conflict in the 21 st Century," presentation at the National Security Agency (NSA) Seminar on "Global Issues in the 21 st Century," the National Security Agency, October 31, 2000.
"Genocide and its Consequences for Regional Instability," presentation at the National Intelligence Council (NIC) Project's workshop at the Center for International and Security Studies (CISSM), University of Maryland, September 25, 2000.
"Socioeconomic Influences on Intrastate Violence", Keynote Address at the conference Intrastate Conflict and Options for Policy, Netherlands Institute of International Relations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Hague, November 16-18, 1998.
"The Evolution of Inequality and its Intractability." The Santa Fe Institute, January 12, 1996.
"Democracy and War: The Origins of Democracy in Agrarian Society." Peter B. Lewis Colloquium in International Politics at the Center of International Studies, Princeton University, October 11, 1990.
"From Regional to Global Conflict: World War I and Cuba." Douglass College Spring Colloquium, February 6, 1990.
"Dealing with Iran, Nicaragua, and the Philippines." Great Decisions Lecture at East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, April 8, 1987.
"Prospects for a Global Monitoring System." Invited Research Colloquium Leader (with Harold Guetzkow) at the Second Midwest Conference on the United States Institute for Peace, University of Iowa, May 29-30, 1986.
"Conflict Behavior and Systemic War in the Twentieth Century." Invited Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the International Society for Political Psychology, Washington, D.C., June 8, 1985.
"Preventing Systemic War." Invited Colloquium at the Center for International and Strategic Studies of the University of California at Los Angeles. February 8, 1984.
"International System Change and Global War." Invited presentation at the Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, California, February 9, 1984.
"The Origins of Global War." Invited lecture at the University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming, February 27, 1984.
"The Onset of Global War." Invited presentation at the Society for Cross-Cultural Research Symposium, Boulder, Colorado, January 23, 1984.
"Political Stability of Two-Party and Multiparty Systems." Invited presentation at the Conference on Mathematical Models in Political Science at the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, July 10-13, 1984.
Selected Departmental, University and Professional Service
At Rutgers University :
Member, Departmental Personnel Committee, 2002-2003
Field Chair, International Relations, 1992-present
Dean's Advisory Committee on Professor II Promotions, 1990-92
Chair, Departmental Minority Recruitment Committee, 1991-92
Member, Departmental Personnel Committee, 1992-93
Chair, International Relations Recruitment Committee, 1993-94
Member, Graduate Admissions Committee, 1996, 2000-01.
At University of Colorado :
Chancellor's Advisory Committee on Reappointment, Promotion and Tenure, 1978-79 (served one year of three-year term before going on leave).
Dean's Advisory Committee on Promotions and Tenure, 1982-85.
Chair, Council on Research and Creative Work, 1975-76: member, 1973-76 (awarding of Faculty Fellowships, Research Lectureships, Grants-in-Aid).
Chair, Academic Ethics Committee, 1973-74: member, 1971-74 (for graduates and undergraduates).
Chair, Departmental Recruitment Committee, 1973-76.
Member, Department Executive Committee (two terms).
Placement Director, 1973-75.
In the Profession
Referee for the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Journal of Conflict Resolution, International Studies Quarterly, Polity, Political Research Quarterly, Political Methodology, the National Science Foundation, Cambridge University Press, Cornell University Press, and Yale University Press.
Chair, Committee for the Selection of Officers of the International Studies Association, 1980.
Member, Executive Committee of the Governing Council of the International Studies Association.
Member, Helen Dwight Reid Dissertation Award Committee of the American Political Science Association, 1977-78.
Member, Pi Sigma Alpha Award Committee for the best paper presented at the 1983 American Political Science meeting.
Participant in a conference series founding the activities of the organization "Data Development for International Relations."
Organizer, Conflict Processes Section of the American Political Science Association.
Member, Ad Hoc Committee on the Structure of the Annual Meeting - A Committee of the American Political Association, 1987.
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