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FACULTY PROFILES, A-L Christa
Altenstetter received
her Ph.D. in Political Science from Heidelberg University
and was a post-doctoral fellow at the John F. Kennedy School
at Harvard University. Dr. Altenstetter directed a research
project at the School of Public Health at Yale University
for several years and was on the research staff of several
American and European Research Institutes. Additionally,
she has frequently served as consultant to health authorities
and the World Health Organization. Since 1969, Dr. Altenstetter
has done empirical research about health care systems and
health care delivery, intergovernmental relations in Germany
and Austria, and European affairs. Since the late 1980's
most of Dr. Altenstetter's research has been devoted to 1)
health care reform in comparative perspective and 2) European
Union developments and their impact on the member states
in the field of health; more recently with focus on international
and cross-national regulation in health care. She is the author of Medical Devices: European Union Policymaking and the Implementation of Patient Health and Safety in France (Transaction Publishers, 2008). In addition, she is editor or co-editor of Innovation in Health Policy and Service Delivery,
1981; Comparative Health Policy and the New Right: From
Rhetoric to Reality, 1991; Health Policy Reform, National
Variations and Globalization, 1997, and Health
Policy. 1998, in addition to numerous articles in peer-reviewed
journals. She has also written numerous articles published
in peer-reviewed journals such as "European Union Responses
to AIDS/HIV and Policy Networks in the Pre-Maastricht Era" (1994); "Regulating
the medical device industry" (1996);
"Regulating and financing medical devices" (1998); "Les
Exigences de l'Intégration Européenne vis-á-vis de la Politique
de la Santé", (1998);
"Collective Action of the Medical Device Industry at the
Transnational Level" (1998). Some of Dr. Altenstetters recent
articles include "Bridging
European and member state implementation: The case of medical
goods, in vitro diagnostics and equipment," "International
Collaboration on Medical Device Regulation: Issues, Problems,
and Stakeholders,"
and "Health
Care Reform in Germany: Patchwork Change within Established Governance
Structures." Dr. Altenstetter is currently working on a cross-national project: Bridging International and National Regulatory Policymaking on Medical Devices: A Comparison of the European Union, Japan, and the United States. She is the founder of a Study Group (SG 19) on Comparative Health Policy within the International Political Science Association (1982) and later served as President of what became the IPSA Research Committee 25 Comparative Health Policy until 2006 within the International Political Science Association (IPSA). RC 25 established a research link to the major international and national health databases and websites. Click on http://web.gc.cuny.edu/ralphbuncheinstitute/RC25%20Web/Links.htm. Or go to http://gc.cuny.edu; look for Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies. Click on Projects. Click on International Political Science Association: Research Committee 25. Professor
George Andreopoulos received
his Ph.D. and LL.B. degrees from Cambridge University. He
has written extensively on international security, international
human rights and international humanitarian law issues. Among
his publications are Non-State Actors in the Human Rights Universe (with Zehra Arat and Peter Juviler,
Kumarian Press, 2006). (ed.) Genocide: Conceptual
and Historical Dimensions. Philadelphia: University of
Pennsylvania Press, 1994; paperback, 1997; with Sir
Michael Howard and Mark Shulman. The Laws of
War: Constraints on Warfare in the Western World. New
Haven: Yale University Press, 1994; paperback 1997; with
Harold Selesky. The Aftermath
of Defeat: Societies, Armed Forces and the Challenge of Recovery. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994; The Use and
Abuse of anti Americanism in Greece.
Athens: Polytypo Publications, 1994;
with Richard Pierre Claude. Human Rights Education for
the Twenty-First Century. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania
Press, 1997; (Ed.) Concepts and Strategies
in International Human Rights. New York: Peter Lang
Publishing, 2003. The Human Rights Education book has been translated
into Japanese, Chinese, and Portuguese. The Portuguese Translation was published by Editora de Universidade de Sao Paulo. The book was nominated for the Grawemeyer
Award in Education. He is the Founding Director of the Center
for International Human Rights at John Jay College. He serves on the Editorial Board of Human Rights Review and on the Advisory Board of several centers and institutes and during 2003-2004 served as President of the Human Rights Section of APSA. He is currently directing a research project entitled Policing Across Borders funded by a major grant from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation. Distinguished Professor Asher Arian received his Ph.D. from Michigan
State University. He was the Romulo Betancourt Professor of
Political Science at Tel Aviv University, and visiting professor
at numerous universities. He was President of the Israel Association
of Political Science, Editor of the Book Series of the International
Political Science Association, and Vice-President of IPSA's
Program Committee. Among his many publications are: Security Threatened:
Surveying Israeli Opinion on Peace and War. Cambridge:
Cambridge Univ. Press, 1995;
"Collective Identity and Electoral Competition in Israel." American
Political Science Review, June 1999; The Second Republic:
Politics in Israel . London: Chatham House, 1998; co-editor, The Elections
in Israel--1996 . Albany: SUNY Press, 1999; co-author, Changing
New York City Politics.
New York: Routledge, 1991. Professor
Sherrie Baver received
her Ph.D. from Columbia University.
She teaches at the City College of New York, where she has served
as the Director of the CCNY Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Program. She has written The Political
Economy of Colonialism: The State and Industrialization in Puerto
Rico. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1993; and co-edited Latinos
in New York: Communities in Transition.
Notre Dame, IN: Notre Dame University Press, 1996. She is completing
a manuscript (co-edited with Barbara D. Lynch), Caribbean
Environmental Issues: Beyond Sun and Sand. Professor Baver
has received various CUNY awards and two Fulbrights to Latin
America. Distinguished
Professor Marshall Berman received
degrees from Columbia, Oxford, and Harvard Universities.
He helped found the Center for Workers’ Education at CCNY.
He is member of the editorial board of Dissent, and has written
on cultural history and criticism in New York Times, Village
Voice, Dissent, Nation, New Left Review, etc. His publications
include: Adventures
in Marxism. New York: Verso, 1999; All That is Solid
Melts Into Air: The Experience of Modernity.
New York: Verso, 1983; The Politics of Authenticity. Athenaeum:
MacMillan Pub Co, 1970 and London: Allan & Unwin, 1972; One
Hundred Years of Spectacle: Metamorphoses of Times Square. Random
House, in progress. Prof. Berman has also been involved in PBS's
History of New York and a History Channel documentary on the
history of Times Square. Professor
John Bowman received
his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. His principal areas
of interest are comparative political economy, the politics
of business organization and the politics of labor relations.
His current research focuses on the politics of business
cooperation and labor market institutions in Scandinavia.
Among his publications are: Capitalist Collective
Action. Cambridge Univ. Press, 1989 and several
journal articles.
Professor
Mitchell Cohen is a professor
of political theory at the Graduate Center and Baruch College
of CUNY. He is also a co-editor of DISSENT magazine.
He received his doctorate from Columbia University. Prof.
Cohen is the author of The Wager of Lucien
Goldmann.
Princeton Univ. Press, 1994;
and Zion and State. Columbia Univ. Press, 1992 (in
French translation, Editions la Decouverte). He co-edited Princeton Readings
in Political Thought.
Princeton Univ. Press, 1996; and edited Rebels and Reactionaries:
An Anthology of Political Short Stories from Hawthorne through
Today. Laurel, 1992.
Prof. Cohen is a Fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities
at NYU and has been a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow
at the Institute of Advanced Studies, Princeton. He has guest-lectured
at Stanford, Harvard, Oxford, the Paris Institute of Politics,
the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, and the American
University of Paris. He has written for numerous scholarly and
intellectual journals including Les Temps modernes, Times
Literary Supplement (London), New York Times Book Review,
and German Politics and Society.
He is "Correspondant Americain" of Raisons politiques:
Etudes de Pensee politique and is a member of the editorial
board of "Jewish Social Studies." Professor Bruce Cronin received his Ph.D from Columbia University in 1996. He teaches International relations, International law, and International organizations at City College and the Graduate Center. His publications include: Bruce Cronin and Ian Hurd, eds, The United Nations Security Council and the Politics of International Authority (Routledge, 2008), Institutions for the Common Good: International Protection Regimes in International Society (Cambridge University Press, 2003), and Community Under Anarchy (Columbia University Press, 1999). Professor
Forrest Colburn received
his Ph.D. from Cornell University. He currently serves as
the Chair of the Department of Latin American Studies at
Lehman College. His books includ: The Vogue of Revolution
in Poor Countries Princeton University Press, 1994; My Car in Managua.
University of Texas Press, 1991; Managing the Commanding
Height: Nicragaua's State Enterprises. University of
California Press, 1990; and Post-Revolutionary Nicaragua:
State, Class and the Dilemmas of Agrarian Policy . University
of California Press, 1986; and Latin America
at the End of Politics.
Princeton University Press, 2002. He has also edited Everyday
Forms of Resistance. M.E. Sharpe, 1989; and Centroamérica:
Estrategias de desarrollo. Editorial Universitaria
Centroamericana, 1987. Professor
Alan DiGaetano received
his Ph.D. from Boston University.
He is also a member of the Baruch College faculty and specializes
in the study of urban politics and policy, including historical
and comparative analysis of urban political economy. His scholarly
publications include:
with John Klemanski. Power and City Governance: Comparative
Perspectives on Urban Development.
(1999), and recent articles, "The Changing Nature of the
Local State: A Comparative Perspective" in Policy and
Politics (2001); "Urban Governance and Industrial Decline:
Governing Structures and Policy Agendas in Birmingham and Sheffield,
England, and Detroit, Michigan, 1980-1997" with Paul Lawless
of Sheffield Hallam University, in Urban Affairs Review (1997),
and "Urban Governing Alignments and Realignments in Comparative
Perspective: Development Politics in Boston, Massachusetts, and
Bristol, England, 1980-1996 in Urban Affairs Review (1997).
Other journals in which his work has appeared are the Journal
of Urban Affairs and the Journal of Urban History. Professor
Kenneth Erickson received
his Ph.D. from Columbia University. He is co-editor-in-chief
of Comparative Politics and serves on the Executive
Board of the New England Council on Latin American Studies.
Among his publications are: with D.A. Rustow. “Global Research
Perspectives: Paradigms, Concepts and Data in a Changing
World.” Comparative Political Dynamics: Global Research
Perspectives. Harper Collins, 1991; “Brazil: Corporatism,
Democratization, and Dependency.” Latin American
Politics and Development . Eds. H. J. Wiarda and H. Kline.
1985. Professor
Joyce Gelb received her
Ph.D. from New York University . Her research and scholarly
concerns deal with feminist mobilization and gender policy
in comparative perspective, particularly in the United States
, Japan and England . She
has received grants from the Aspen Institute, the Ford and
AT&T and Ms Foundations, the US Japan Foundation and
the Social Science Research Council, the National Science
Foundation and Japan Society for the Promotion of Science as well as the Association for Asian Studies.
She has
been a visiting professor at Yale, the Associated Kyoto
Program in Japan, the University of Tokyo, National Taiwan and Tsingua University (Taiwan) and Shanghai University, as well as Queens University Belfast and Stockholm University in recent years. Her most recent publications
are: co-editor, Women and Politics around the World: A Comparative History and Survey (ABC-CLIO, 2009) and Gender Policies in
Japan and the United States: Comparing Women's Movements,
Rights, and Politics. (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003). An article entitled "Feminism,
NGO's and the Impact of the New Transnationalisms" was published
in Dynamics of Regulatory Change ed. by Vogel and Kagan , University
of California Press, 2003. Professor
John Gerassi received
his Ph.D. from the London University. Among his publications
are: “The Comintern, the Fronts and the CPUSA,” in New Studies
in the Politics and Culture of U.S. Communism, Monthly Review,
(1993); Jean Paul Sartre:
Hated Conscience of His Country (Univ. of Chicago Press,
1989); The Premature Anti-Fascists: Oral History of American
and Canadian Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War (New York:
Praeger, 1986). Professor
Marilyn Gittell received her Ph.D. from New York University. She is the Director of the Howard Samuels Center. Professor Gittell has produced a body of scholarly work, trained graduate students, received awards and served as a consultant to several private and voluntary sector institutions. Ms. Gittell has written extensively on the politics of education, higher education for low-income women, state politics, and community development. Her books include: Strategies for School Equity: Creating Productive Schools in a Just Society, Choosing Equality: The Case for Democratic Schooling; The New Federalism in State Politics; Limits of Citizen Participation; and her most recent book, Social Capital and Social Citizenship. She recently was co-editor and author of a chapter in a special edition of the American Behavioral Scientist entitled Higher Education Today: The Impact of State Politics and Policies on Access and Economic Development, Sage Publications, April 2000. In August 2001 Ms. Gittell received the Norton Long Career Achievement Award in Urban Politics from the Urban Politics Section of the American Political Science Association. Professor John Goering received his Ph.D. from Brown University, Ph.D. in sociology and demography. His research focuses upon housing and neighborhood development, as well as and race and ethnic issues. He is the author of several dozen articles as well as editor and author of The Best Eight Blocks in Harlem (University Press, 1977); Housing Desegregation and Federal Policy (University of North Carolina Press, 1986); Mortgage Lending, Racial Discrimination and Federal Policy (Urban Institute Press, 1996); and another book, Choosing a Better Life? Evaluating the Moving to Opportunity Experiment, is scheduled for publication by The Urban Institute Press in Spring 2003. He has served on the editorial boards’ of the Urban Affairs Review, New Community, Housing Studies, and the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. An article summarizing research on the MTO experiment has been recently published in Journal of Housing Research. The Federal Reserve Bank of New York has scheduled a policy-focused assessment of MTO for publication in their Economic Policy Review. At the Ralph Bunche Institute at The Graduate Center, he is co-directing a Mellon Foundation grant focused on the interface between international and domestic human rights policies. Before joining the faculty, John directed evaluation and research on housing, neighborhood change, and civil rights issues at HUD, and then served on the staff of the Clinton White House Initiative on Race. For the American Sociological Association, he served on their committee on Sociologists in Government (1992-1995); the Committee on Archives (1993-1998); and the Program Committee for the Year 2000 and the year 20001 ASA Annual Meetings (for ASA President’s Joe Feagin and Douglas Massey). He serves as a consultant on research and litigation for HUD. Email: john_goering@baruch.cuny.edu Professor Janet Gornick is Professor of Political Science and Sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center. She is also Director of the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS), a cross-national data archive and research center located in Luxembourg (http://www.lisproject.org.) She directs an affiliated center at the Graduate Center, the Luxembourg Income Study Center at the CUNY GC (http://web.gc.cuny.edu/liscenter/). Professor Gornick is co-author of Families That Work: Policies for Reconciling Parenthood and Employment (Russell Sage Foundation 2003) and Gender Equality: Transforming Family Divisions of Labor (Verso Press, forthcoming). Most of her research is comparative, across the industrialized countries, and concerns social welfare policies and their impact on family well-being and gender equality. She has published articles on gender and social policy in several journals, including the American Sociological Review; the Annual Review of Sociology; the Socio-Economic Review; the Journal of European Social Policy; Social Science Quarterly; Monthly Labor Review and Feminist Economics. She recently served as Guest Editor for “Work-Family Reconciliation Policies in High-Employment Economies: Policy Designs and their Consequences,” a special double issue of the Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice. She has also published her work in popular venues, including The American Prospect; Dissent; and Challenge Magazine.Professor Gornick earned her Ph.D. in Political Economy and Government from Harvard University in 1994. Professor
James F. Guyot received
his Ph.D. from Yale University. His current areas of interest
are the interplay of economic development and democratization
in Southeast Asia, ethnic and gender dimensions of organizational
recruitment and advancement, and errors in social science
research. His recent publications include: "Burmese
Practorianism,"
in Tradition and Modernity in Myanmar (LIT Verlag, 1994); "Burma
in 1997: From Empire to ASEAN," Asian Survey, February 1998; "Representative
Bureaucracy Recast," Public Administration Review, July/August
1998; "The Feminization of Power Meets the Separation of
Powers,"
The Public Manager, Fall 1998; "Sartor Resartus: A Comparative
Analysis of Public and Private Sector Entrant Quality Reanalyzed," American
Journal of Political Science, August 1997. Professor
Thomas Halper received
his Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University. He chairs the political
science department at Baruch College. His most recent book
is Positive Rights
in a Republic of Talk (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003).
Among his other publications are:
"Accommodating Death," in Philosophy of Medicine: Framing
the Field (2000);
"From Warren and Brandeis to Roe and Cruzan," Journal
of Medicine and Philosophy (1996); The Misfortunes of Others
(Cambridge Univ. Press, 1989); "Life and Death in a Welfare
State," Milbank Quarterly (1985); Power, Politics, and American
Democracy (Scott, Foresman, 1980); "The New Deserving Poor
and the Old," Polity (1973); Foreign Policy Crises (Merrill,
1971); and "The Logic of Judicial Reasoning," Indiana
Law Journal (1967). Professor
John W. Harbeson teaches
and writes in the fields of comparative politics and international
relations, with special reference to Africa. This year he
is on leave as a Visiting Fellow in the Center of International
Studies, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University where
he is working on a book on Democratization and the State
in sub-Saharan Africa. From 1998 to 2001 chaired the Department
of Political Science at City College. His most recent book
is Africa in World
Politics: The State System in Flux, coedited with Donald
Rothchild. He's been a Jennings Randolph Senior Fellow at
the U.S. Institute of Peace in Washington and Regional Democracy
and Governance Advisor, Agency for International Development.
He has been elected to the governing Council of the American
Political Science Association for a two year term (2003-2005).
On the Council, he chairs the international affairs committee
concerned primarily with the Higher Education Act Renewal,
especially Title VI. He is also e member of the Council task
force on Difference and Inequality in the Developing world.
He is co-founder of the APSA section on Comparative Democratization
and was the sections first chair. He is the founder and current
chair of APSA's African Politics Conference Group. Professor
Jack Jacobs received his Ph.D. from Columbia University. He is currently the Associate Provost and Dean for Academic Affairs (Acting) for the CUNY Graduate Center. Professor Jacobs was an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Columbia before coming to CUNY, and is now Professor of Government at CUNY’s John Jay College. In 1996-1997, Professor Jacobs served as a Fulbright Research Scholar at Tel Aviv University. In 1998, he was a visiting scholar at the Simon-Dubnow-Institut fuer juedische Geschichte und Kultur at Leipzig University. He served as Dr. Emanuel Patt Visiting Professor at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research during the academic year 2003-2004. He has been the recipient of grants from the Lucius N. Littauer Foundation, the German Academic Exchange Service, the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Leo Baeck Institute, and the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, among other sources. He is the author of On Socialists and "the Jewish Question" after Marx (New York University Press, 1992), which has appeared in German (Decaton Verlag, 1994), and the editor of Jewish Politics in Eastern Europe: The Bund at 100 (New York University Press, 2001). His current research centers on Critical Theory and the image of the Jew.
Professor
Roger Karapin received his Ph.D. from M.I.T., and is a Professor of Political Sciene at Hunter College. He is the author of numerous articles and book chapters on immigration politics, anti-minority riots, and far-right parties. More recently, he wrote Protest Politics in Germany: Movements on the Left and Right Since the 1960s (Penn State U. Press, 2007), which won the 2008 Charles Tilly Award for the Best Book on Collective Behavior and Social Movements, awarded by the American Sociological Association's section of the same name. His current research focuses on environmental policy and environmental sustainability. Professor
Young Kun Kim received his
Ph.D. from Columbia University. His fields of specialization
are the history of Western political thought with emphasis
on German political ideas since the eighteenth century, classical
Chinese philosophy, and modern Chinese, Japanese, and Korean
social and political thought. His long range interest is
in comparative political thought. In addition to many articles
in Korean, his publications include: “Confucianism and Modernization,”
Korea Society (April 1993); “Cost of Unification,” Korea
Society (1993); “Theodor Adorno,” in Encyclopedia of World
Biography (McGraw Hill, 1981); “Hegel’s Criticism of Chinese
Philosophy,” in Philosophy East and West (April 1978); “An
Ch’ang-ho’s Conception of Political Education,” Journal of
Korean Affairs (July 1975). Professor
Donna Kirchheimer received
her Ph.D. from Columbia University. Her publications include:
“Sheltering the Homeless in New York City: Expansion in an
Era of Government Contraction,” in Critical Issues for Clinton’s
Domestic Agenda: Essays From Political Science Quarterly
(The Academy of Political Science, 1994); “From Shelters
to Housing: Homeless Families in New York City,” Working
Paper #3, (Michael Harrington Center, Queens College, 1991);
“Public Entrepreneurship and Subnational Government,” Polity,
(1989). Professor
Frederick S. Lane received
his Ph.D. from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public
Affairs at Syracuse University. He teaches courses in public
administration and public policy; his scholarly focus is
the effective management of public, nonprofit, and educational
institutions. He is also a Professor in the School of Public
Affairs at Baruch College, where he has served as Chairperson
of the Department of Public Administration and Program Director
of the Executive Masters of Public Administration program.
In the mid-1970s, he was Staff Director of the Governor's
Task Force on Higher Education; in 1981-82, he was President
of the New York State Political Science Association. In 1984,
he was named Outstanding Academic in Public Administration
by the New York Metropolitan Chapter of the American Society
for Public Administration. His scholarly work includes two
anthologies: Current Issues in Public Administration, 6th
edition (Bedford/St. Martin's, 1999), which is used in colleges
and universities across the country, and Managing State and
Local Government (St. Martin's Press, 1980). For his 1983
article,
"Higher Education and Public Policy in New York," he
received the Golden Apple Award for excellence in writing about
education from the New York State United Teachers. His other
publications include: "Organizational Analysis and Management
Improvement," in The Nonprofit Organization Handbook, 2nd
edition (McGraw-Hill, 1988), and "Managing Not-for-Profit
Organizations," for which he won the Laverne Burchfield
Award for the best book review essay in Public Administration
Review in 1980. He has also been Visiting Professor of Public
and International Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton
University, and Visiting Professor of Public Administration at
the University of Vermont. Professor
James Levine is Dean
of Graduate Studies and Research at John Jay College of Criminal
Justice, where he is also a member of the Government department.
From 1993 to 1999, he served as Executive Officer of the
Doctoral Program in Criminal Justice of the City University
of New York located at John Jay College. He received his
doctorate in political science from Northwestern University,
winning the Edward S. Corwin Award given by the American
Political Science Association for the best dissertation in
the field of public law completed in 1968. Prior to coming
to John Jay he served on the faculties of Michigan State
University, the University of Oregon, and Brooklyn College
of the City University of New York. Professor Levine has
published two textbooks on criminal justice (co-authored
with Michael Musheno and Dennis Palumbo): Criminal Justice:
A Public Policy Approach (New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich,
1980) and Criminal Justice in America: Law in Action (New
York: John Wiley, 1986). He is the co-author, with David
Abbott, of Wrong Winner:
The Coming Debacle in the Electoral College (New York:
Praeger, 1991). His most recent book is Juries and Politics
(Pacific Grove, CA: Wadsworth, 1992). Professor Levine has
published numerous articles on criminal justice institutions,
criminal justice policy, and research methodology; his research
has focused on jury behavior in recent years. His work has
appeared in such journals as Judicature, Criminal Law Bulletin,
Criminal Justice Ethics, Journal of Criminal Justice, Legal
Studies Forum, Law and Social Inquiry, Crime and Delinquency,
Social Science Quarterly, Criminology, Public Policy, Law
and Society Review, and Polity. Professor
Peter Liberman received his Ph.D from MIT, and is a Professor of Political Science at Queens College. He is also serving as an Associate Editor of International Security and a research affiliate at Columbia’s Saltzman Institute for War and Peace Studies. Liberman is the author of Does Conquest Pay? The Exploitation of Occupied Industrial Societies (Princeton, 1996), as well as journal articles on political psychology, alliance politics, the causes of war, trade conflict, and nuclear proliferation. His current research is on retributive motives for the use of military force. More information on this and past projects can be found here. His CV can be found here.
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