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Simple answer. You can't.
1) Prior to HOI3 NO HOI game had pause mapped to anything BUT the Pause button. AoD followed and changed it to the space bar.
2) The developers are looking at changing this, but it isn't as simple as just remapping the button because other functions are currently mapped to the space bar ("Go To" and "Deploy" in the pup-ups for example.)