Jeremy Shapiro, explains that the Scottish Independence Referendum was not only about a festering governance crisis at the national level between London and Edinburgh, given Northern part of England shares similar concern with such detachment, but also, an political evolution made possible by the European Union. The EU, serves, as a "key plank on the platform of independence movement."
Quote. "The main difference is that Scottish nationalism and the political framework of devolution have given Scotland a vocabulary and platform for doing something that people elsewhere in the United Kingdom cannot: seek independence from London."
Shapiro also proposes the doubt if smaller community needs a larger national entity to thrive, and "exercise the function of nationhood." The question concerning if size matters to the viability of state, is therefore misplaced. This was explained by the case of Luxembourg, where 50,000,0 population is resided. This is made possible under globalisation and the potential membership of the European Union, and was made more apparent when the United Kingdom are more euro-skeptic generally.
There are three things to be addressed. The rise of regionalism that flared up from frustration at centralised state government, against the background of a common market built by the semi-federal European Union. It is a piecemeal progress of political system evolution, as embodied as devolution. The Scottish Referendum will not be the last, it is a beginning.
http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/141981/fiona-hill-and-jeremy-shapiro/size-doesnt-matter
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