Abstract
Abstract This chapter focuses on the systemic-level effects of geoeconomics on great power competition (specifically, the United States and China). It examines how China’s growing focus on economics, technological innovation, and geography is changing the discourse on outer space, where the interplay of geoeconomics, economic statecraft, and national security is evident in the way nations behave. This changing discourse challenges US leadership in the post–Cold War system, not just from a distribution of capabilities perspective, but also from a cognitive and narrative-shaping perspective. The chapter demonstrates how this system-shaping notion of geoeconomics (grand strategy) is influenced in turn by unit-level decision-making, financial commitments, innovation policies (economic statecraft), and the political economy of national security. The chapter highlights the role of middle powers in shaping the space environment, as their decisions on how economic and technological instruments shape up at their unit levels, in turn, challenge and affect the way geoeconomics is shaping up and playing out at the systemic level of the great powers. The interactive effects of geoeconomics, economic statecraft, and national security are examined through illustrative case studies.
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