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The Origins of AGE: From States and Markets to Scientific Methods
Stockholm University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Political Science.
Number of Authors: 12023 (English)In: The Palgrave Handbook of Global Politics in the 22nd Century / [ed] Laura Horn, Ayşem Mert, Franziska Müller, Springer, 2023, p. 387-403Chapter in book (Refereed)
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Since its founding in 2085 AD, the sage tutelage of the Association of Governmental Experimentation (AGE) has ushered in an unprecedented era of prosperity and stability. The road to a more perfect governance method was long and difficult; nation-state collapse, increased regional federalism, and finally a global governance model based on sound scientific grounding. Yet, despite the method’s place at the core of our world order, the intellectual roots of AGE remain a topic of some controversy. The two texts published in this chapter were written with very different aims and audiences in mind. The first text, published in 2115, was written in connection with the 20th anniversary celebrations of the founding of the Association of Governmental Experimentation (AGE). The author is himself a high-ranking administrator in AGE and the text, while closely mirroring the form of twenty-first-century scholarly article, is more than a little hagiographic. It should perhaps be treated as part of the organization’s attempt to lay down an official history of its origins. The second text, written a few years later by the anonymous and dissident research collective Satya al-Haq, is a vicious deconstruction of the first text. If we take the nameless authors at their word, then AGE is not the perfectly designed global governance structure that it portrays itself to be, but something far more nefarious. For those of us-increasingly few-outside of the orbit of AGE and its radical political experiments, it will appear difficult to ascertain the veracity of these two competing claims. Clearly the two texts cannot both be true; we leave it to our audience to decide for themselves.

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Springer, 2023. p. 387-403
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URN: urn:nbn:se:su:diva-234450DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-13722-8_23Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85161815157ISBN: 978-3-031-13721-1 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:su-234450DiVA, id: diva2:1906088
Available from: 2024-10-16 Created: 2024-10-16 Last updated: 2024-10-16Bibliographically approved

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