B: Globalization and Socio-Economic Development

Union College

Mark Dallas

Mark P. Dallas is an Associate Professor of Political Science and Asian Studies and Director of Asian Studies at Union College in New York. In 2019, he was the Hallsworth Visiting Professor at the Global Development Institute at the University of Manchester. In 2016-17, he was a visiting scholar at the Department of Strategic Management and Public Policy at the School of Business, George Washington University. In 2013-14, he was the An Wang Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University’s Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. He has also been a visiting scholar at the School of Government at Beijing University and the Shandong Institute of East Asian Studies in Jinan, China. His work has been funded by a Fulbright fellowship, the Harvard-Yenching Institute, the Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation, the National Security Education Program and the Blakemore Foundation, among others.

His research focuses on international and comparative political economy and development, complexity theory and emergence in technology and markets, China and the East Asian region, industrial policy, and the intersection of ‘big data’ and qualitative research methods, including concept formation, categorization and operationalization. His publications primarily engage with issues of governance, power and value creation and capture in global value chains (GVCs) with particular focus on light industries and semiconductors, computing and electronics in China and East Asia. He combines qualitative research with several types of big data, including large-scale firm-level financial and technology datasets and big data, such as hundreds of millions of records of Chinese shipment-level trade data.

Zhejiang University

Douglas Fuller

Douglas B. Fuller is a professor in the Department of Management of Zhejiang University’s School of Management. He previously taught at King’s College London, Chinese University of Hong Kong and American University. His research spans the political economy of development, technology policy and strategy, and comparative capitalism with a geographic focus on East Asia. The focus of his current research is the relationship between the institutions of China’s political economy and its patterns of technological development. Other current research includes comparative industrial and labor regimes in developing countries, governance of China’s state-owned enterprises, and comparative institutional analysis of the developmental trajectories of the Chinese and Indian semiconductor sectors.

Indiana University - Bloomington

Lauren M. MacLean

Lauren M. MacLean is the Arthur F. Bentley Chair and Professor of Political Science at Indiana University- Bloomington. Her research focuses on the comparative political economy of development, investigating the politics of state-building and the everyday exercise of democratic citizenship in post-colonial contexts in Africa and the U.S. Currently, she is examining the politics of climate change, energy poverty, and citizen perceptions of accountability when governments fail to provide reliable electricity in Ghana. She is interested in rapid urbanization, rising inequality, and the role of non-state institutions in democratic governance. Her work draws on history, anthropology, geography, and development economics and combines methodologies through immersive fieldwork to understand how citizens experience and participate in politics.  

Bentley University

Pon Souvannaseng

Dr. Pon Souvannaseng is Assistant Professor of Comparative & International Policy in the Global Studies Department at Bentley University. Her expertise spans the politics and finance of energy and infrastructure projects and environmental governance in the developing world, with extensive research experience in East & Southeast Asia and Africa.  Her research examines the nexus between states, business and the environment, with special attention to development, finance and climate change issues.  She is a Wilson China Fellow, Mansfield-Luce Asia Policy Scholar, and APSA Asia Fellow.  A political economist by training, she holds a PhD from the London School of Economics & Political Science. 

Pon has served as a researcher at the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, ASEAN Labour Secretariat and the International Institute for Strategic Studies.  She is an Affiliate of the Centre for Crisis Studies & Mitigation at the University of Manchester and a Non-Resident Fellow of the East-West Center, Washington DC.  Her research has been supported by Fulbright, UKRI, Japan Foundation and US Embassy Tokyo grants.

Brooklyn College, City University of New York

Caroline Arnold

Caroline E. Arnold is an associate professor of Political Science at Brooklyn College, City University of New York.  Her interdisciplinary research centers on comparative political economy of development, with a focus on India and Turkey; it brings together approaches from the study of global value chains, historical sociology, and economic history. As a Co-Organizer of Network B, “Globalization and Socio-Economic Development” since 2013, she has worked with her network co-organizers to encourage greater participation from scholars working in the area of political economy of development.

Universidade Candido Mendes

Antonio Botelho

Antonio José Junqueira Botelho is Full Professor, Graduate Program in Political Sociology at IUPERJ, Universidade Candido Mendes, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He has previously worked at PUC Rio and US and Norwegian universities. Nowadays, he is also Visiting Researcher with the ‘GLOBOIL Project’ at the Department of Technology, Innovation and Culture, University of Oslo, Norway, and Research Director of ‘Resetting GVC governance in the oil and gas sector in East Asia Project’ at IDE-JETRO, Tokyo, Japan. Recently he was a Visiting Professor at Sophia University, Tokyo, and Visiting Researcher at Kyoto University, Japan. He has been long interested in the study comparative development and capitalism, particularly the politics of innovation and high-tech sectors (aeronautics, semiconductors, computers, software, mobiles, oil and gas, and renewables) having done research in Brazil, France, and Japan. His current research deals with industrial upgrading and development in natural resources and globalization and supply chain reorganization in the oil and gas industry in Brazil, Norway, and Asia. Botelho has published widely on technological change, innovation and industrial transformation in Europe, Brazil, and Japan over a range of disciplines, including history of science, technology and innovation, political sociology, business strategy and history, developmental studies, and comparative political economy (recent publications appeared in Journal of Latin America-Journal of the Japanese Society of Social Studies on Latin America JSLA, Comparative Politics, and International Journal of Innovation and Technology Management). His work combines archival historical research, ethnography, and interview-based case studies with theoretical concerns for the nature and sustainability of industrial sectors in shaping developmental trajectories and national industrial structures. Botelho holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from MIT, graduate degrees from Cornell University and Université Paris IV, and was National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Minority Fellow at the Johns Hopkins University. He is on the Editorial Board of The Journal of Information Technologies and International Development, Perspectives on Global Development and Technology, and Science, Technology and Society.