Biography

An economics PhD from the l'Institut d'études politiques de Paris (IEP) and a political science PhD from l'Université Paris II, Pascal Lorot has been the president of Institut Choiseul for International Politics and Geoeconomics

Institut Choiseul for International Politics and Geoeconomics

Headquartered in the heart of Paris, France, Institut Choiseul for International Politics and Geoeconomics is an independent research center that analyzes international relations, economic and political strategies as well as international cultures....

 since 2003 and has also been a member of the French Commission of Energy Regulation since November, 2003.

Lorot's past activities include: the director of economic studies for the French oil company TOTAL

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 (1995-2002), many ministerial cabinet positions, a counselor for the president of the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development (BERD) and also a researcher at the French Institute of International Relations (IFRI).

He is the founder and director of the academic journal Géoéconomie, yet also is director of six other journals focused on geopolitical issues including:

• Monde Chinois was founded in 2004 and is a leading French journal dedicated to the analysis of economic, strategic, political and cultural evolutions in the Chinese world (People's Republic of China, Taïwan, Hong Kong and Singapore).
• Politique Américaine is a French language journal dedicated to contemporary issues in the United States of America.
• Problèmes d'Amérique latine is a major French language journal on current political, economic and cultural change in Latin America.
• Nordiques was founded in 2003 and is the only French language journal dedicated to the policies and strategies of states in Northern Europe and the Baltic.
• Maghreb-Machrek is one of the largest, most renowned international reviews dedicated to the Arab world.

Contribution to International Relations

Along with American economist and consultant Edward Luttwak

Edward Luttwak

Edward Nicolae Luttwak is an American military strategist and historian who has published works on military strategy, history and international relations.-Biography:...

, Lorot helped develop a branch of international relations study known as geoeconomics

Geoeconomics

Broadly, geoeconomics is the study of the spatial, temporal, and political aspects of economies and resources. The formation of geoeconomics as a branch of geopolitics is often attributed to Edward Luttwak, an American economist and consultant, and Pascal Lorot, a French economist and political...

(sometimes spelled geo-economics). According to Lorot:

"Geoeconomics analyzes economic strategies--notably commercial--, decided upon by states in a political setting aiming to protect their own economies or certain well-identified sectors of it, to help their national enterprises acquire technology or to capture certain segments of the world market relative to production or commercialization of a product. The possession or control of such a share confers to the entity–-state or national enterprise–-an element of power and international influence and helps to reinforce its economic and social potential." (Translated from French, italics are contributor's own)