relationship between his native Romania and Europe, placing the country politically and culturally "between East and West", citing it as the "last to enter what is commonly called the European concert", referring not to Romania's 2007 accession to the European Union, but to the country's change of orientation towards adopting a Western political and cultural model. He has voiced his concern regarding multiculturalism in Europe, a policy which he views as detrimental to stability within the EU. He was a critic of what he perceived to be an excessively pro-Western attitude in Romanian politics, suggesting that Romanian society and culture could not be classified as Western, citing Orthodoxy as the predominant religion, the presence of many non-Latin elements in the modern Romanian language and the country's history in the past centuries as arguments. He also wrote about what he called the "American hegemony" and its premises, analysing the influence which the United States and its foreign policy have had on the world and, more specifically, on Europe. He characterised the efforts of the United States to establish what resembles a hegemony in Europe and other parts of the world as a "Seventy-Seven Years' War" waged throughout most of the 20th century. Djuvara can be seen as a populariser and "de-mystifier" of history, having published books aimed a younger audience as well as books seeking to explain the historical basis for mythical figures such as Dracula or Negru Vodă. He also published memories from his exile, recounting his life and work in Paris, France, and Niamey, Niger. Djuvara has claimed that Romanian marshal Ion Antonescu, who ruled Romania during World War II, was in fact an Albanian of Romania or, as he called him, an . Romanian historian Ion Teodorescu agrees with this view. References External links Page at the Humanitas site 1916 births 2018 deaths Deaths from pneumonia in Romania Aromanian people Foreign relations of Niger Knights of the Order of the Star of Romania Male essayists Men centenarians Romanian male novelists National Liberal Party (Romania) politicians Writers from Bucharest Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty people Romanian activists Romanian anti-communists Romanian centenarians Romanian children's writers Romanian defectors Romanian essayists Romanian expatriates in France Romanian journalists Romanian Land Forces officers Romanian memoirists Romanian monarchists Nobility from Bucharest Romanian novelists Romanian people of World War II Aromanian military personnel Romanian philosophers Romanian political scientists Romanian writers in French Academic staff of the University