Constantinos Syropoulos is the Trustee Professor of International Economics at the School of Economics of the LeBow College of Business at Drexel University, Philadelphia (USA) and a Research Fellow at CESifo, Munich (Germany). He has strong research interests in international trade and geopolitics, the economics of conflict and appropriation, trade agreements and economic sanctions. In recent work, he has explored the possible links between trade openness and international conflict.