The Teaching, Research & International Policy (TRIP) project asked international relations scholars: “Who was the most effective US secretary of state in the past 50 years?”

Here are the answers (the survey was conducted in 2014).

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1. Henry Kissinger

32.27%

2. James Baker

17.73%

3. Madeleine Albright

8.79%

3. Hillary Clinton

8.79%

5. George Shultz

5.61%

6. Dean Rusk

3.48%

7. Warren Christopher

1.52%

7. Cyrus Vance

1.52%

9. Colin Powell

1.06%

10. Condoleezza Rice

0.45%

11. Lawrence Eagleburger

0.3%

11. John Kerry

0.3%

13. William Rogers

0%

13. Edmund Muskie

0%

13. Alexander Haig Jr.

0%

Don’t know

18.18%

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The Teaching, Research & International Policy (TRIP) project at the College of William & Mary seeks to collect and analyse data about research and teaching in international relations (IR). Its faculty survey includes IR scholars in more than 30 countries. “The overwhelming majority of our respondents have jobs in departments of political science, politics, government, social science, international relations, international studies, or in professional schools associated with universities,” says the project’s website. “Given our definition of ‘IR scholar’ — individuals with an active affiliation with a university, college, or professional school —, we excluded researchers currently employed in government, private firms, or think tanks (except where instructed otherwise by our country partners).”

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