The Sharaa government promises to rehire ministry employees fired for political reasons in the Assad era, while planning 400% pay hikes. But the state seems to be more or less broke? Unless foreign donors step in, the economic situation could turn sour quickly. www.enabbaladi.net/730534/%D8%B...

The new authorities in Syria are facing a familiar dilemma: who should staff the bureaucratic elite after capturing the state? In a new paper, Neil Ketchley and I look at this aspect of post-revolutionary state-building