Ernest J. Wilson

Articles and Speeches

Digital Public Media - New Diversity or Same Old Boys Network?

Public broadcasters, in the midst of a transition to digital public media, have a great opportunity to lead the way towards a truly inclusive digital media landscape. This is essential because the American media system currently fails to reflect the diversity of the American people. Inequalities based on race, class, gender, age, and other factors limit Americans’ opportunities in all fields of life, and this is reflected in our media system in terms of ownership, employment, content, and other metrics.

Digital Media, Modern Democracy, and Our Truncated National Debate
--And Communications for All, 2009

Closing the Global IT Capacity Gap
ECAR Symposium, December 4, 2008, Boca Raton, FL

IT success hinges increasingly on our capacity to create and sustain a senior leadership cadre (e-leaders) able to mobilize the most appropriate IT resources to advance organizational purposes. They must be able to integrate multiple factors into a single strategy. A number of key factors have combined to create a growing gap between the need for e-leaders and their current supply. Closing this gap requires fixing both coordination between senior organizational executives and their chief IT officers, and coordination between information and communication technology experts in government and those in private firms, universities, and nonprofits. This session will suggest essential individual competencies and organizational capacities required for success.

Governing Global Electronic Networks Conclusion
Governing Global Electronic Networks, 2008

Hard Power, Soft Power, Smart Power
The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2008

This article pushes beyond hard power and soft power to insist on smart power, defined as the capacity of an actor to combine elements of hard power and soft power in ways that are mutually reinforcing such that the actor's purposes are advanced effectively and efficiently. It argues that advancing smart power has become a national security imperative, driven both by long-term structural changes in international conditions and by short-term failures of the current administration. The current debates over public diplomacy and soft power suffer from failures to address conceptual, institutional, and political dimensions of the challenge, three dimensions the author addresses in this article.

Digital Media, Democracy, and Diversity: An Imperfect Discourse
MEDIA RE:PUBLIC, 2008

Is There Really a Scholar-Practitioner Gap? An Institutional Analysis
American Political Science Association, January 2007

The relationship between scholars and practitioners is a continuing source of concern to both communities. Each side complains about the insularity of the other and routinely points to gaps that separate them.

CHINA ’S ROLE IN THE WORLD: Is China a Responsible Stakeholder in Africa?
Testimony before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, 2006
U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission Hearing

There are few issues more vital to U.S. national interests than understanding and responding appropriately to the changing global role of the People’s Republic of China.

Trends in China’s Transition Toward a Knowledge Economy
Asian Survey, 2005

This essay identifies critical trends in the evolution of information technology sectors in China. Chinese policymakers will have to make decisions in four areas that will shape the knowledge economy and may help transform China from being a technology market taker to a market maker.

CHINA’S INFLUENCE IN AFRICA: Implications for U.S. Policy
Testimony before the Sub-Committee on Arica, Human Rights and International Operations, 2005
U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Divining U.S. interests out of the intersections of China and Africa is truly a daunting challenge. We are dealing with more than 50 African countries, each quite different from the others, and each with different relations with China; we are tracking and evaluating half a dozen critical foreign policy issues, from petroleum to foreign aid; and from this mix we then try to distill answers to the question- “So what? What should America do, if anything, about the influence of China in Africa?” Let me take up each of these in turn.

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