DISCLAIMER: Interview with Prof. Cohen was recorded before US air strikes on Syria. Host Carol Castiel and VOA Economics Editor, Jim Randle, talk with Eliot Cohen, Director of the Strategic Studies Program at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and former counselor at the US State Department to Secretary Condoleezza Rice, about his new book “The Big Stick: The Limits of Soft Power and the Necessity of Military Force.”