Perry Cammack is an associate in the Middle East Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where he focuses on long-term regional trends and their implications for American foreign policy. Follow him on Twitter: @perrycammack https://www.newsdeeply.com/syria/contributor/perry-cammack/rss en Government & Pro-Government Forces War Economy Thu, 11 Feb 2016 00:00:00 +0000 Perry Cammack https://www.newsdeeply.com/syria/community/2016/02/11/the-staggering-price-of-syrias-reconstruction https://www.newsdeeply.com/syria/community/2016/02/11/the-staggering-price-of-syrias-reconstruction Five years of war in Syria have left large swathes of the country in ruin. And with the peace process on the brink of collapse, an end to the war is nowhere in sight. But with a reconstruction bill that is likely to run well over $100 billion, planning for Syria’s eventual rebuilding must start now.