Mark P. Dallas

Senior Associate (Non-resident), Economic Security and Technology Department
Mark P. Dallas

Mark P. Dallas is a professor of political science, Asian studies, and science, technology, and society at Union College in New York. His research addresses critical questions at the intersection of technology innovation, geopolitics, global value chains, and firm strategy, with particular focus on China, East Asia, and information-communication technologies. Previously, as a Stand Together Trust Fellow, Dallas served as senior adviser in the Bureau of Industry and Security in the U.S. Department of Commerce, where he provided strategic analysis on China and developed bespoke, comprehensive databases on China’s export control system. He was also a Wilson Center China Fellow, examining U.S. export control effectiveness through the lens of industrial organization, and a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow, during which he worked with the World Bank on novel approaches to modularity and industrial organization in digital technologies with important policy implications. His interdisciplinary research has been published in leading academic journals across business strategy, development, geography, political science, and sociology, covering topics from telecommunications standard-setting, Chinese industrial policy, business networks, and international trade. Dallas previously was a visiting scholar at the George Washington School of Business in the Department of Strategic Management and Public Policy, the University of Manchester’s Global Development Institute, and an An Wang Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University’s Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. He has a PhD and MA in political science from UC Berkeley and a BA from Princeton University, summa cum laude.

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Tech Edge: A Living Playbook for America’s Technology Long Game

Winning the tech race is not about any single breakthrough. Leadership requires competing across the full menu of technologies, developing the dexterity to build at speed and scale, and defending our domestic markets from nonmarket competition.

Report by Navin Girishankar, Mark P. Dallas, Sree Ramaswamy, Scott Kennedy, Philip Luck, Joseph Majkut, Ilaria Mazzocco, Erin L. Murphy, Matt Pearl, Richard M. Rossow, Sujai Shivakumar, Chris Borges, Ray Cai, and Ryan Featherston — January 20, 2026