美《外交政策》杂志调查：凯瑞为最糟国务卿
John Kerry Worst Secretary Of State, Foreign Policy Ivory Tower Survey Shows
国际财经时报 2015年2月5日 http://goo.gl/5B1I3G By Howard Koplowitz
根据美国《外交政策》杂志举办的“象牙塔调查”，660名美国国际关系学者在周四发表
了他们投票的结果，将现任国务卿凯瑞评为过去50年来效率最低落的一位国务卿，调查
中仅两人表示凯瑞是最佳者。
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has been the least effective person to hold
that post in the past 50 years, according to results of Foreign Policy’s Ivory
Tower survey, a poll of 660 U.S. international relations scholars released
Thursday. Only two said Kerry was the most effective secretary of state.
参与本次调查的学者在排名时并不需给出理由，而季辛吉在过程中获评为50年来办事最
有力的国务卿，共213人（32%）给予他这项好评。近120人（20%）表示他们无法挑出最
佳人选。
The survey didn’t have scholars give explanations for their rankings, which
had former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger as the most effective
secretary of state of the past five decades. More than 32 percent of the
surveyed scholars, or 213 of them, gave Kissinger that distinction. Nearly 20
percent, or 120 scholars, said they couldn't name the most effective secretary
of state.
凯瑞自2013年起上任国务卿，他作为美国的外交首长，待办事项多如牛毛。接替了前国
务卿希拉蕊后，凯瑞必须着手于乌克兰危机、伊斯兰国好战集团的兴起、去年的以色列
加萨战争，还要就伊朗核武计画展开谈判。58名学者（8.8%）将他的前任希拉蕊评为效
率最高的国务卿。
Secretary of state since 2013, Kerry has had a lot on his plate as the country’
s top diplomat. Since he replaced former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton,
Kerry has had to deal with the crisis in Ukraine, the rise of the Islamic State
militant group, last year’s war between Israel and Gaza, and negotiations on
Iran’s nuclear program. Clinton was dubbed the most effective secretary of
state by 58 scholars, or nearly 8.8 percent.
论排名来看，凯瑞与前国务卿伊格尔伯格差不多打平，而华盛顿邮报指出伊氏在小布什
政府内仅当了6周的国务卿，然而象牙塔调查仍将凯瑞列于最后。
To put Kerry’s ranking into perspective, he was tied with former Secretary of
State Lawrence Eagleburger, who held that title for only six weeks during the
George H.W. Bush administration, the Washington Post noted. But the Ivory Tower
survey lists Kerry last.
本次投票除了替众多国务卿进行排序外，还征集了1,600学者的意见，选出美国在当今和
往后十年内所面临到最重要的外交政策议题，全球气候变迁同时为两者之首，中东武装
冲突则分别获选为当今次要的挑战、和往后十年内第三重大的挑战。除此两者之外，当
今的第三重大挑战为失败国家和失败中国家议题，往后十年内的第二重大挑战则为中国
兵力崛起。
Besides ranking the former secretaries of state, the poll also sought the
opinions of more than 1,600 scholars on the most important foreign policy
issues facing the U.S. today and over the next 10 years. Global climate change
topped both lists, while armed conflict in the Middle East was second for today
’s challenges and third among issues over the next 10 years. Failed or failing
states was ranked as the third-biggest challenge facing America today while
China’s rising military power was the second-biggest concern in the next 10
years.