Whose legitimacy? The EU and Russia in contest for the eastern neighbourhood

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Table 1. Mechanisms of external soft influence on domestic political governance.

	External actorness	External norms of political governance
Domestic actorness	Persuasion of domestic actors	Legitimization of domestic actions
Domestic norms of political governance	Legitimization of domestic policies and practices	Diffusion of ideas

Source: Adapted from Noutcheva (2016).

Figure 1. Ukrainians’ views on the preferred foreign policy orientation of their country, in %.

Note: Razumkov Centre.

Noutcheva, Gergana. “Societal Empowerment and Europeanization: Revisiting the EU’s Impact on Democratization.” JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies 54, no. 3 (2016): 691–708.

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