“Our Real Educated People:” Neoliberalism and Syria’s New Elites
This article summarizes how over a decade of economic liberalization resulted in increased socio-economic stratificaiton in Syria.  It then considers how that stratification has impacted Syria's current conflict.
Changing regime discourse and reform in Syria
1. Introduction: Changing Discourse under the Ba’th Raymond Hinnebusch 2. Ideology And Discourse in the Era of Ba’thist Reforms: Towards an Analysis of Authoritarian Governmentality Aurora Sottimano 3. It’s the Mentality, Stupid: Syria’s Turn to the Private Sector Kjetil Selvik
The Use of Qualitative Information in Macro-Economic Policy Analysis
The majority of macro-economic policy models takes for granted that conflicts among objectives can be assessed by means of a tradeoff analysis. Such tradeoffs imply that sacrifices and benefits of various impacts of decisions can be measured on a cardinal scale, so that a conventional macro-economic utility or welfare analysis can be applied.