This time next year, the country known as the United Kingdom may be about to disappear.
If Scotland's separatist government gets its way in a referendum planned for September, the 300-year-old union of Scotland, England, Wales and Northern Ireland — the United States' oldest and closest ally — will be on the road to disintegration.
That is a dramatic, though accurate, way of describing the possible secession of Scotland from one of the world's most successful political, social and economic unions.
The ties that bind the United Kingdom are strong, but there would be profound international implications should the Scottish people choose secession. The residual United Kingdom would still be a major player in the world, but upon losing a third of its land mass, 5 million of its population and a huge amount of credibility, its global standing would inevitably diminish.
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