Taking Control of Damascus
Since January, plans for Syria‘s transformation along the lines of the Western model are being developed in Berlin. Government advisors of the state financed German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) and functionaries of the state financed United States Institute for Peace (USIP) – along with around 45 representatives of the Syrian opposition – have been elaborating the most important measures to be implemented immediately following the possible overthrow of the Assad regime.