Asian Studies Program
Mark Dallas
Job Title
Professor of Political Science
Research interests
Global Value Chains, Industrial Organization, China, National Security, High-tech Sectors, East Asian Regionalism, Comparative and International Political Economy, Economic and Political Development and Public Policy, Trade, FDI and Foreign Economic Policy.
Teaching interests
Contemporary Chinese Politics; Asian Development; Artificial Intelligence; Technologies in Society: Power, Politics and Economy; International Relations of East Asia; Wealth and Power among Nations; Global Value Chains: Power, Governance and Development; Varieties of Capitalism; Introduction to Global Politics; Cambodia
Publications
Peer-reviewed
2025. “Driven to Self-Reliance: Technological Interdependence and the Chinese Innovation Ecosystem” International Studies Quarterly (with Yeling Tan, Abraham Newman & Henry Farrell)
2025 “Massive Modular Ecosystems: A Framework for Understanding Complex Industries in the Digital Age” Policy Research Working Paper, Washington, D.C.: World Bank Group. (with Eric Thun, Daria Taglioni and Timothy Sturgeon)
2024 “Rethinking Export Controls: Emerging technologies, industrial organization and US-China relations” in Analyzing China’s Domestic and Foreign Policies (Lucas Myers, Ed.), Wilson Center China Fellowship (2023-24).
2024. “Collaboration and Social Capital in Meta-Organizations: Bonding or Bridging?” Technology Analysis & Strategic Management. (with Jing-Ming Shiu and Po Hsun Lin)
2023. “Power and Inequality in Global Value Chains: Advancing the research agenda” Global Networks (with Stefano Ponte and Jennifer Bair). Co-editor of Special Issue
2023. “A friend of a friend? Social capital and networks in telecommunications standard-setting organizations” Technological Forecasting and Social Change Vol. 189 (with Jing-Ming Shiu and Hui-Hsuan Huang)
2023. “Power in consensus: Legitimacy, global value chains and inequality in telecommunications standard-setting” Global Networks (with Jing-Ming Shiu)
2022. “Massive Modularity: Understanding Industry Organization in the Digital Age – TheCase of Mobile Phone Handsets” Policy Research working paper; no. WPS 10164 Washington, D.C.: World Bank Group. (with Eric Thun, Daria Taglioni & Timothy J. Sturgeon)
2021. “The Mutual Constraints of States and Global Value Chains during COVID-19: The Case of Personal Protective Equipment,” World Development 139 (with Rory Horner and Lantian Li)
2019. “Power in Global Value Chains,” Review of International Political Economy (with Stefano Ponte and Timothy Sturgeon)
** Nominated for “Best Theory Paper” by the Academy of International Business
2019. “Governance and Power in Global Value Chains” in Handbook of Global Value Chains
(with Stefano Ponte and Timothy Sturgeon), Northhampton, MA: Edward Elgar
Publishing
2015. "‘Governed’ Trade: Global Value Chains, Firms and the Heterogeneity of Trade in an Era of Fragmented Production” Review of International Political Economy 22(5), pp.875-909.
2014. "Cloth without a Weaver: Power, Emergence and Institutions across Global Value Chains." Economy and Society 43(3), (August 2014), pp.315-345.
2014. “Manufacturing Paradoxes: Foreign Ownership, Governance and Value Chains across China’s Light Industries” World Development, Vol. 57 (May 2014), pp. 47-62.
2011. “Two Tales of Agro-Industrial Transformation: State Capacity in China’s and India’s Textile Industries” in Industrial Dynamics in China and India: Firms, Clusters and Different Growth Paths, edited by Moriki Ohara, M. Vijayabaskar and Hong Lin. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Online Publications (not peer- or editor-reviewed)
2023 VoxEU “The emergence of Massive Modularity as a new form of industrial organization and what it means for decoupling and international trade policy” (with Eric Thun, Daria Taglioni & Tim Sturgeon)
2022 University of Pennsylvania’s Perry World House, “Paradoxes of Global Value Chains: (Im)possibilities of Decoupling” in A Fractured World: The Future of Globalization
2021 World Bank, “Massive modularity: Why reshoring supply chains will be harder than you may think” (with Eric Thun, Daria Taglioni & Tim Sturgeon) in Let’s Talk Development
2021 World Bank, “Why policy makers should pay attention to the concept of massive modularity: The example of the mobile telecom industry” (with Eric Thun, Daria Taglioni & Tim Sturgeon) in Let’s Talk Development
Research Reports:
2021. Reorganization of Global Value Chains: Risks and Opportunities for Brazil from the 2020 Covid
-19 pandemic. A report for CNI and TOTVS (Brazil) (with Timothy Sturgeon)
2013. “State Capacity in China’s and India’s Textile Industries,” in Industrial Dynamics in
India and China: Comparing the Growth Processes of Indigenous Firms and Clusters,
RINDAS International Symposium, Ryukoku University, Kyoto, Japan.
Additional media
Employment, Public Service & Fellowship Affiliations
2024- Professor, Political Science, Union College, NY. (Affiliate professor in Asian Studies and Science, Technology & Society)
2025- Senior Associate(non-resident), Center for Strategic and International Studies
2024-25 Senior Advisor, Bureau of Industry & Security, U.S. Dept. of Commerce
2025 Consultant, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
2025 Consultant, World Bank, Trade & International Integration Research Group
2023-24 The Wilson Center, China Fellow
2021-22 Council on Foreign Relations, International Affairs Fellow for Tenured International Relations Scholars (IAF-TIRS)
2021-22 Consultant, World Bank, Trade & International Integration Research Group
2019-22 Director of Asian Studies, Union College
2019 Hallsworth Visiting Professor, Global Development Institute, University of
Manchester
2016-23 Associate Professor, Political Science, Union College, NY.
2016-2017 Visiting Scholar, George Washington University School of Business,
Department of Strategic Management and Public Policy
2010-16 Assistant Professor, Political Science & Asian Studies, Union College, NY.
2013-14 An Wang Postdoctoral Fellow, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies,
Harvard University
2008-09 Visiting Scholar, Shandong Institute of East Asian Studies, China
2006-07 Harvard-Yenching Fellow for Advanced Research on China, School of
Government, Peking University.
2005-06 Fulbright Visiting Scholar, School of Government, Peking University
Academic credentials
B.A., Princeton University; summa cum laude; M.A., University of California at Berkeley; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
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