This article attempts to look at the quest for diversity by posing a question about how effective the concept has been in securing meaningful diversity in the public sphere of liberal polities. It distinguishes between diversity and difference to suggest that difference poses a greater challenge to liberal polities as compared to diversity. It then goes onto look at diversity in relation to democracy, especially in the context of a worsening climate of democracy across the world. The article suggests that the prospects for diversity are unlikely to be bright either in the contemporary conjuncture or the immediate future. The article ends by suggesting that diversity is caught between the forces of globalization and the insular nationalism that has welled up from the hinterlands of nation-states.

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追求多样化的离子

本文试图通过提出一个问题来探讨对多样性的追求，该概念在自由主义政体的公共领域确保有意义的多样性方面有多有效。它区分了多样性和差异，表明与多样性相比，差异对自由政治构成了更大的挑战。然后，它着眼于与民主有关的多样性，尤其是在全世界民主气氛日趋恶化的背景下。这篇文章表明，无论是在当代环境还是在不久的将来，多元化的前景都不会很光明。文章最后提出，全球化的力量与从民族国家的腹地涌现出来的孤立的民族主义之间存在着多样性。