... of these systems and for the design of governance paradigms that employ the lenses of complexity, global systemic risk, and our inexorable interdependence. Advancements in this research area would enable both individuals and policy-makers to more effectively navigate the complex systems-of-systems that define...

...-of-systems, a better understanding of critical concepts and methodologies from the fields of systems theory and global systemic risk can provide a framework for our study of GVCs. Network theory and the mathematics of graph theory allow us to diagram and model the pairwise relationships between actors...