An interesting commentary on Stratfor 'Protest Movements as Political Strategy':http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/prote...tical-strategy

It ends with nice prose that is hardly new:
By understanding how a protest movement works and how well it targets and exploits the weaknesses of the state it is demonstrating against, we can assess how successful movements are likely to be.
What struck me as curious is that it was published on the 5th July 2012 and has not one mention of 'protest movements' in the USA, a nation-state that arose from a protest movement and had just marked that the day before.