world. i m fareed zakaria. today on the program from the czars and arenas to soviet-era com czars to president putin. we delve into the nature of power in russia looking at the past to help us understand the present. i ll talk to the new yorkers david remnick can professor nina krus efa. also the prime minister of barbados on getting the west to pay for damage for the climate change s rising seas and weather. two degrees is a death sentence. and the president of kenya on why many nations in the global south are not taking a side on the war in ukraine. but first, here s my take. in his important book the third wave samuel huntington pointed out the division among the ruling elite is a key sign of weakness in authoritarian regimes. when prominent members of the establishment break with the system it often triggers a larger set of changes. conversely, when you do not see such defections it means the autocrat will probably be able to survive. syrian dictator bashar al ass
mismatch in russia? a i new book by the scholar alexander atkin makes the case that putin has created a parasitic state that gets revenues by extracting natural resources rather than any creative production and which fulfills none of the nufrfuncti of a modern state in terms of providing welfare for its people. it s a clipt on kratic regime, and after the protests against him in 2011 and 2012 which an enraged putin blamed on then secretary of state hillary clinton, the russian state became even more anti-modern. you see, for putin s regime, the west now represents forces of social, economic and political modernization that could infect russia. in his speech, might inaccused