All Outputs (20)

Strategy, Secrecy, and External Support for Insurgent Groups (2023)
Journal Article
Paliwal, A., & Staniland, P. (2023). Strategy, Secrecy, and External Support for Insurgent Groups. International Studies Quarterly, 67(1), Article sqad001. https://doi.org/10.1093/isq/sqad001

States support transnational insurgents in an important variety of ways, from highly public efforts to transform the status quo to covert backing with limited ambitions. In this paper, we introduce a new theory to help explain variation in these stra... Read More about Strategy, Secrecy, and External Support for Insurgent Groups.

The Limits of Decolonisation in India’s International Thought and Practice: An Introduction (2022)
Other
The Limits of Decolonisation in India’s International Thought and Practice: An Introduction. London

Politics, Strategy, and State Responses to Conflict Generated Migration: Evidence from India (2022)
Journal Article
Paliwal, A. (2022). Politics, Strategy, and State Responses to Conflict Generated Migration: Evidence from India. Journal of Global Security Studies, 7(1), https://doi.org/10.1093/jogss/ogab032

Why do states respond differently to conflict-generated migration crises across space and time? Building on valuable existing literature, this article offers a new conceptual typology of “situational strategic contexts” (SSCs). It hypothesizes that t... Read More about Politics, Strategy, and State Responses to Conflict Generated Migration: Evidence from India.

A Field Guide to Human-Elephant Relations in Sri Lanka: Patterns, Roles, and Rhythms of Multispecies Socialities within Conflict and Cohabitation (2022)
Thesis
Oriel, E. A Field Guide to Human-Elephant Relations in Sri Lanka: Patterns, Roles, and Rhythms of Multispecies Socialities within Conflict and Cohabitation. (Thesis). SOAS University of London and Royal Veterinary College

As the extinction and climate crises erase many species’ lifeways and lives, an ecological politics that views all beings as actors, negotiators, persons even, is called for across disciplines. This research approaches human-elephant conflict (HEC) i... Read More about A Field Guide to Human-Elephant Relations in Sri Lanka: Patterns, Roles, and Rhythms of Multispecies Socialities within Conflict and Cohabitation.

Colonial Sinews of Postcolonial Espionage: India and the Making of Ghana’s External Intelligence Agency, 1958-61 (2021)
Journal Article
Paliwal, A. (2022). Colonial Sinews of Postcolonial Espionage: India and the Making of Ghana’s External Intelligence Agency, 1958-61. The International History Review, 44(4), 914-934. https://doi.org/10.1080/07075332.2021.1888768

Based on untapped Indian archives, this article details how Delhi built Accra’s security service in 1958-61. Keen to reduce its dependency on the outgoing British colonial administration, Ghana sought India’s support when both the Cold War rivalry an... Read More about Colonial Sinews of Postcolonial Espionage: India and the Making of Ghana’s External Intelligence Agency, 1958-61.

Opening the Black Box - The Making of India's Foreign Policy (2020)
Other
(2020). Opening the Black Box - The Making of India's Foreign Policy. London

Most studies looking at India’s external policies continue to
“black-box” the actual process of how Indian foreign policy is
made. More specifically, most studies generally overlook how
India’s complex domestic polity and bureaucratic apparatus
s... Read More about Opening the Black Box - The Making of India's Foreign Policy.

"How Many Miles Make an Inch?": Centre-State Relations and the 1967 India-Burma Boundary Agreement (2020)
Journal Article
Paliwal, A. (2020). "How Many Miles Make an Inch?": Centre-State Relations and the 1967 India-Burma Boundary Agreement. India Review, 18(5), 596-612. https://doi.org/10.1080/14736489.2019.1703368

Unabated protests in Manipur against India’s boundary with Myanmar and the lack of demarcation of some boundary pillars, despite the signing of the India-Burma Boundary Agreement in 1967, makes it an important case to study how center-state relations... Read More about "How Many Miles Make an Inch?": Centre-State Relations and the 1967 India-Burma Boundary Agreement.

A Cautious Balance - Explaining India’s Approach towards Afghanistan’s Peace Process (2019)
Journal Article
Paliwal, A. (2019). A Cautious Balance - Explaining India’s Approach towards Afghanistan’s Peace Process. Asian Security, 16(2), 263-280. https://doi.org/10.1080/14799855.2019.1665515

The US president Donald Trump pitched India’s participation as being central to his Afghanistan policy in 2017. Yet, as the US has sought a negotiated settlement with the Afghan Taliban, there is little clarity on how India seeks to deal with its inc... Read More about A Cautious Balance - Explaining India’s Approach towards Afghanistan’s Peace Process.

‘A cat’s paw of Indian reactionaries?’ Strategic Rivalry and Domestic Politics at the India-China-Myanmar Tri-junction (2018)
Journal Article
Paliwal, A. (2020). ‘A cat’s paw of Indian reactionaries?’ Strategic Rivalry and Domestic Politics at the India-China-Myanmar Tri-junction. Asian Security, 16(1), 73-89. https://doi.org/10.1080/14799855.2018.1551884

Ostensibly driven by concerns over a military standoff with China similar to Doklam, India increased military deployment at the Myanmar tri-junction. This article assesses the inevitability of systemic factors such as rivalry with China in determinin... Read More about ‘A cat’s paw of Indian reactionaries?’ Strategic Rivalry and Domestic Politics at the India-China-Myanmar Tri-junction.

Foreign Policy Analysis and Indian Foreign Policy (2018)
Book Chapter
Pant, H. V., & Paliwal, A. (2018). Foreign Policy Analysis and Indian Foreign Policy. In H. V. Pant (Ed.), New Directions in India's Foreign Policy - Theory and Praxis (106-124). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108562850.007

My Enemy's Enemy: India in Afghanistan from the Soviet Invasion to the US Withdrawal (2017)
Book
Paliwal, A. (2017). My Enemy's Enemy: India in Afghanistan from the Soviet Invasion to the US Withdrawal. Hurst and Co. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190685829.001.0001

The archetype of ‘my enemy’s enemy is my friend’, India’s political and economic presence in Afghanistan is often viewed as a Machiavellian ploy aimed against Pakistan. The first of its kind, this book interrogates that simplistic yet powerful geopol... Read More about My Enemy's Enemy: India in Afghanistan from the Soviet Invasion to the US Withdrawal.

Reimagining Afghanistan (2017)
Journal Article
Paliwal, A. Reimagining Afghanistan. International Affairs, 93(3), 701-707. https://doi.org/10.1093/ia/iix093

Filling the Capability Deficit (2017)
Other
Paliwal, A. (2017). Filling the Capability Deficit. New Delhi

Afghanistan-India Relations: Normative Sources of Bilateral Ties (2016)
Book Chapter
Paliwal, A. (2016). Afghanistan-India Relations: Normative Sources of Bilateral Ties. In C. Ogden (Ed.), New South Asian Security: Six Core Relations. Orient Blackswan

Afghanistan's India-Pakistan Dilemma: A Balancing Act? (2016)
Book Chapter
Paliwal, A. (2016). Afghanistan's India-Pakistan Dilemma: A Balancing Act?. In H. V. Pant (Ed.), Afghanistan's Regional Dilemmas: South Asia and Beyond. Orient Blackswan

Pakistan-Afghan Relations Since 2001: There are no Endgames (2016)
Book Chapter
Paliwal, A. (2016). Pakistan-Afghan Relations Since 2001: There are no Endgames. In C. Jaffrelot (Ed.), Pakistan at the Crossroads: Domestic Dynamics and External Pressures (191-218). Columbia University Press. https://doi.org/10.7312/jaff17306-009

India's Taliban Dilemma - To Engage or to Contain? (2015)
Journal Article
Paliwal, A. (2015). India's Taliban Dilemma - To Engage or to Contain?. Journal of Strategic Studies, 40(1-2), 35-67. https://doi.org/10.1080/01402390.2015.1040153

Afghanistan's India-Pakistan Dilemma - Advocacy Coalitions in Weak States (2015)
Journal Article
Paliwal, A. (2015). Afghanistan's India-Pakistan Dilemma - Advocacy Coalitions in Weak States. Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 29(2), 465-491. https://doi.org/10.1080/09557571.2015.1058617

This article seeks to examine the foreign policy behaviour of weak states in regions marked by politically turbulent geostrategic environments. An analysis of Afghanistan's foreign policy behaviour vis-à-vis Pakistan and India lends focus to this aim... Read More about Afghanistan's India-Pakistan Dilemma - Advocacy Coalitions in Weak States.

Securing Afghanistan: Historic Sources of India's Contemporary Challenge (2013)
Other
Paliwal, A. Securing Afghanistan: Historic Sources of India's Contemporary Challenge

Silent Game: China's Engagement in Afghanistan (2011)
Other
Paliwal, A. Silent Game: China's Engagement in Afghanistan