Eliot Cohen is Director of the Strategic Studies Program at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies and the author of The Big Stick: The Limits of Soft Power and the Necessity of Military Force. From 2007 to 2009, he was a counselor to then-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
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