by GEOFFREY BARRACLOUGH
Stevenson Research Professor of International History, University of London
It is often said that the United States has replaced Britain as the world's dominant power. Professor Barraclough argues that this view is based on a misreading of history, and that the rise of the United States to world power reflects not a change of leadership in an existing system but the emergence of a new system. followed by interlude at 9.25