Matthew F. FLEMING

Category: Affiliated

  • Atlantic Council | A Next-Generation Agenda: South Korea-US-Australia Security Cooperation

    Atlantic Council | A Next-Generation Agenda: South Korea-US-Australia Security Cooperation

    Matthew F. Fleming was a contributor to the Atlantic Council’s A Next-Generation Agenda on South Korea-US-Australia Security Cooperation.

    There is great potential for expanded trilateral cooperation among the United States, South Korea, and Australia, but they will need to overcome the “tyranny of distance” and the resulting diverging threat perceptions. The three partners should do more to take advantage of the varied applications of critical and emerging technologies, as well as engage further with other partners in the region on these topics. The partners can focus their efforts on concretely developing cooperation through public-private collaboration through avenues such as defense industry cooperation, research and development (R&D), and infrastructure projects…

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  • Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs | A Policy Framework for International Cooperation in Space Biotechnology

    Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs | A Policy Framework for International Cooperation in Space Biotechnology

    Matthew F. Fleming was a Research Assistant at the Center for International Affairs & World Cultures, were he supported the research and coordination behind this project.

    Biotechnology is an indispensable tool for long-term human space exploration, especially if the goal is for humans to not only be able to survive in space, but to flourish. At the intersection of simultaneous advancements in both space and biotech is the capacity to engineer closed-loop space systems that generate food, oxygen, medicine, habitats, and other materials sustainably without having to bring everything from Earth. Future scientific, resource, and security benefits are tremendous, but there are also many ethical risks. In this report, a team of interdisciplinary experts in the fields of political science, international affairs, biotechnology, philosophy, ethics, environmental science, and chemistry, argue that deeper and deliberate international and transnational cooperation will be crucially important to expand space diplomacy and governance as the genomic and space revolutions collide.

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