Don’t expect to find scholars cheering loudly from John Kerry’s fan club.
Foreign Policy magazine’s 2014 Ivory Tower survey of 1,615 international relations scholars from roughly 1,400 colleges around the nation found that the Secretary of State garners scant respect from the academy.
When asked: “Who was the most effective U.S. secretary of state of the past 50 years?” the scholars put Kerry dead last, with just 0.31 percent of the vote.
Kerry is tied with Lawrence Eagleburger, who served briefly as Secretary of State under President George H.W. Bush after James Baker’s resignation in August 1992.
Nobel Peace Prize winner Henry A. Kissinger was the winner with 32.31 percent — dominating the number two selection, “Don’t know,” which garnered 18.31 percent of the votes.
Kissinger served for four years during the Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford administrations.
James Baker came in third (17.71 percent) followed by Madeleine Albright (8.7 percent) and Hillary Clinton (8.7 percent).
Colin Powell ranked tenth, with 1.07 percent, followed by Condoleezza Rice with 0.46 percent.
