Dr. Avinash Paliwal

SOAS

Expertise on

Countries: India, Bangladesh
Policy Areas & Themes: Conflict, Defence & Security, Diplomacy, Foreign Policy, History, Politics, Violence

Bio

Avinash Paliwal specialises in South Asian strategic affairs. 

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special research expertise on

• Foreign policy analysis

• Diplomacy

• Secret intelligence and covert action

Engagement experience includes

• Secondment to the FCDO as a British Academy Innovation Fellow (2023-24)

• Former journalist, with continuing extensive public writing and speaking

Read a sample of Avinash’s research outputs

India's Near East: A New History (2024) 

My Enemy's Enemy: India in Afghanistan from the Soviet Invasion to the US Withdrawal (2017)

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