ABSTRACT
This chapter sets an agenda for examining knowledge-based economization in a geopolitical framework. The developmental reading de-politicizes the contemporary condition, and thus the dynamic and complex geopolitical processes involved in such economization. Peculiar geopolitical notions of inter-state and inter-spatial competition are built into knowledge-based economization. A scholarly exploration of the geopolitical in the context of the knowledge-based economy is long overdue. The materialist conception of geopolitics makes the conceptual distinction between geopolitics and geoeconomics largely untenable. M. A. Peters argues that the terms knowledge-based economy and knowledge-based society come together in policy circles where the master concepts borrowed from the sociology and economics of knowledge have come to help shape and define policy templates for economic and social development and well-being. Geopolitics essentially denotes the production of economic value through spatial strategies, and of harnessing the value in the constitution and maintenance of territories of political power.
