The European Diversity Series publishes high-quality scholarship on various aspects of contemporary European Socio-Economic Development. In the following years we aim to contribute to the ongoing dialogue about Europe and its diversity. The editor in Chief, guiding the series in its development is Prof. Dr. Peter Herrmann, a sociologist of German origin, who has worked in Ireland since 1995. He currently holds the position of senior research fellow in the Department of Applied Social Studies at University College Cork and director of the independent research institute, European Social, Organizational and Science Consultancy. Peter Herrmann Social Policy in Context Fan Hong, Jörn-Carsten Gottwald The Irish Asia Strategy and Its China Relations Arno Tausch The city on the hill? The Latin Americanization of Europe and the lost competition with the U.S.A. Arno Tausch (with Chr. Bischof & K. Mueller) Muslim Calvinism Internal security and the Lisbon Process in Europe