Article 2 - Complexity Series
We live in a world of connections. But most of them are invisible.
People talk about "communities", "alliances", "supply chains", "influence"...
But what they’re REALLY describing, without naming it, is this:
Networks.
Network theory is the mathematical and conceptual framework used to map, analyze, and understand how things (people, ideas, information, power) connect and propagate.
It’s not new. Yet it is essential to understand the world.
Why?
Because when things become nonlinear, emergent, and interdependent, the structure of relationships becomes more important than the individual nodes themselves.
To understand a system, don’t ask "what is it made of?"
Ask: "how is it connected?"
What is a network?
A network is made up of: