Olga Oliker is a senior international policy analyst at the RAND Corporation.  Oliker's research has focused on international efforts to advance political, economic, social, and security sector development in countries in conflict as well as those undergoing peaceful political and economic transitions. Her interests also include the implications of transition for development, including questions of displacement and other forms of voluntary and involuntary migration. Oliker has carried out hands on work and written extensively on these topics as they apply to the countries of the former Soviet Union, Iraq, Afghanistan, Liberia, and others.  In early 2004, Oliker served as a special advisor for national security affairs to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad, where she assisted in the creation of Iraqi national security decision making structures. Before coming to RAND in 1999, Oliker worked as an independent consultant and held positions in the U.S. Departments of Defense and Energy. Recent RAND publications include Russian Foreign Policy: Sources and Implications; Guidebook for Supporting Economic Development in Stability Operations; Improving Capacity for Stabilization and Reconstruction Operations; Women and Nation-Building; Making Liberia Safe: Transformation of the National Security Sector; and Securing Tyrants or Fostering Reform? U.S. Internal Security Assistance to Repressive and Transitioning Regimes.