Avinash Paliwal

Avinash Paliwal is Reader in International Relations at SOAS, University of London and was previously Deputy Director of the SOAS South Asia Institute. He is the author of My Enemy’s Enemy – India in Afghanistan from the Soviet Invasion to the US Withdrawal (Hurst and OUP, 2017) and India's Near East – A New History (Hurst, 2024). Between 2023 and 2025, he served as the India and South Asia analyst at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office.