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Katrin Park calls into question the utility of dumping billions into Afghan gender-empowerment programs by the US government that do not work.

New Defense Secretary Ashton Carter has made moves to limit the U.S. military's reliance on PowerPoint. He needs to ban it entirely, says Katrin Park.

Katrin Park argues that the UN should own up to its failures in Afghanistan's postwar reconstruction and that unconditional spending has to end.

Katrin Park believes that rather than establish a new UN counterterrorism body, existing structures should be made fit for that purpose. Getting members to agree on how to counter terror is yet another matter.

UN expert Katrin Park argues that swarming the impoverished northwest corner of Africa with $5 billion of counterterrorism assistance will not solve the region's security threats.