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Economic Policy and Class Structure in Syria: 1958–1980

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2009

Syed Aziz-al Ahsan
Syed Aziz-al Ahsan
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Department of Political ScienceUniversity of BritishColumbia
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It is indeed an interesting endeavor to investigate the impact of economic policies on social stratification. Doing so enables us to see to what extent economic policies bring changes in class structure in a society. We take the case of Syria to study its economic policies and their accompanying impact on the evolving pattern of the Syrian elite from the late 1950s to the early 1980s and then look at accompanying impact on class structure.

The two poles or aspects of this paper are (1) economic policies themselves and (2) their impact on class structure. The question that we are going to raise in the first pole is the following: what is the nature of the economic policies? This refers to land reforms, industrial and commercial reforms, and foreign trade controls.

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International Journal of Middle East Studies , Volume 16 , Issue 3 , August 1984 , pp. 301 - 323
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1984

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Author's note: I express deep gratitude to Professor Paul Noble of the Department of Political Science, McGill University, for his constructive criticism of earlier drafts of this paper.

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