Some are to do with a failure on the part of the new forces, including Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, to forge wide alliances and coalitions and integrate youth groups in a strategy to curb the military's authority.
Talks are afoot with America Online to build a Europe-wide alliance.
Retired and an Age UK volunteer, she feels the county-wide alliance of residents will give her and other older people easier access to information should there be problems in the future.
Last month, members of the EU-wide Alliance for Beverage Cartons and the Environment wrote an open letter to Frans Timmermans, the Commission's first-vice president, stating the case for tougher recycling standards.
Having quickly recovered from the shock of widespread disqualification of its candidates - including Hassan Khomeini, Ayatollah Khomeini's erudite and reform-minded grandson - the reform movement has organized a nation-wide alliance, aptly nicknamed 'The Second Step' (Gam-e Dovvom).
The EU-wide Alliance for Beverage Cartons and the Environment wrote an open letter to Timmermans ahead of the withdrawal of the package, stating the case for tougher recycling standards: "From our specific point of view, to stop or withdraw the proposal at this point risks exacerbating a trend we see towards fragmentation of packaging waste producer responsibility schemes".
"I think it's got to be a wider alliance," she said.
The next tactical steps are supposedly to be decided by the wider alliance talks taking place this week in London.
It says: "Blair was right to weigh the possible consequences for the wider alliance with the US very carefully".
"Blair was right to weigh the possible consequences for the wider alliance with the US very carefully," the report says.
Who, he might disingenuously ask, could possibly object to fighting Isis as part of a wider alliance?
