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Angela O’Mahony is a senior political scientist at the RAND Corporation, and her research has spanned a wide range of topics related to international political economy, international security, and methods for policy research and modeling complex social systems.

Over the past decade she has authored dozens of policy reports, including reports on security cooperation and defense posture, forecasting future conflict trends, assessing multinational interoperability, projecting public support for terrorism, the national security implications of virtual currency, and the integration of women into special operations forces.

Angel has published extensively on computational social-behavioral modelling for complex environments and uncertainty-sensitive approach to understanding decision making. She recently co-edited Social-Behavioral Modeling for Complex Systems, a volume that grew out of DARPA-funded RAND research.

Angel has also published a dozen articles in top political science and international relations journals, including articles examining the implications of international political and economic scrutiny on governments’ decision making, the causes and consequences of transnational political behavior, and modeling complex social systems.

A full record of her research activities can be found on her CV.