Can decentralization help tackle the Syrian crisis?

Some of the presuppositions of the document, I can support to a certain extent. Thus, the Assad regime won the war against its opposition: this is true of course, even if in fact the Russians and the Iranians were the ones to have rolled the national armed opposition – not the regime. The center of gravity of the political game, according to the ECFR, now lies in the process of de-escalation launched by the Russians and joined by the Turks and the Iranians, and at least in part the Americans. More...