Avinash Paliwal अविनाश पालीवाल

Reader in IR @soaspolitics | Nonresident Scholar @CarnegieSAsia | Former @FCDOGovUK I Author: India's Near East: A New History (2024); My Enemy's Enemy (2017)

[Avinash Paliwal अविनाश पालीवाल @PaliwalAvi]

i didn’t realise how serious India’s comeback has been in Sri Lanka till I visited Colombo recently. i also didn’t realise the risks of JVP’s consolidation of power and inability to deliver on reforms.

here’s a piece for @CarnegieSAsia on what I learnt
https://t.co/HUdz0pUR7b

[Avinash Paliwal अविनाश पालीवाल @PaliwalAvi]

i didn’t realise how serious India’s comeback has been in Sri Lanka till I visited Colombo recently. i also didn’t realise the risks of JVP’s consolidation of power and inability to deliver on reforms.

here’s a piece for @CarnegieSAsia on what I learnt
https://t.co/HUdz0pUR7b

[Avinash Paliwal अविनाश पालीवाल @PaliwalAvi]

@RupakChatto @CarnegieSAsia thank you 🙏🏾

[Avinash Paliwal अविनाश पालीवाल @PaliwalAvi]

i didn’t realise how serious India’s comeback has been in Sri Lanka till I visited Colombo recently. i also didn’t realise the risks of JVP’s consolidation of power and inability to deliver on reforms.

here’s a piece for @CarnegieSAsia on what I learnt
https://t.co/HUdz0pUR7b

[Carnegie South Asia @CarnegieSAsia]

Read our new piece by @PaliwalAvi on Sri Lanka's economic and geopolitical balancing act: https://t.co/agtNIrxBhl

[Milan Vaishnav @MilanV]

New from @CarnegieSAsia : @PaliwalAvi reflects on Sri Lanka's careful economic and geopolitical balancing act. Economic recovery has brought Sri Lanka a modicum of stability, but domestic strains and great-power rivalry could test how long it lasts. https://t.co/9PLAm9fZfd

[Avinash Paliwal अविनाश पालीवाल @PaliwalAvi]

‘the spectre of a simultaneous political fracture within Europe and heightened Russian hybrid warfare is what makes [the current] moment truly perilous’

my latest @htTweets column on the rising risk of horizontal escalation in the Russia-Ukraine/Europe war & India’s options.

[Hindustan Times @htTweets]

#Opinion | The spectre of a simultaneous political fracture within Europe and heightened Russian hybrid warfare is what makes this moment truly perilous

@PaliwalAvi ✍🏻

Read more about it: https://t.co/kidK2iGmeX

[Avinash Paliwal अविनाश पालीवाल @PaliwalAvi]

https://t.co/brHKMQ7bBw

[Avinash Paliwal अविनाश पालीवाल @PaliwalAvi]

‘the spectre of a simultaneous political fracture within Europe and heightened Russian hybrid warfare is what makes [the current] moment truly perilous’

my latest @htTweets column on the rising risk of horizontal escalation in the Russia-Ukraine/Europe war & India’s options.

[Rosa @RosaisDEI]

Just powered through the last 70 pgs to finish this bad boy. ( its great ! Avinash Paliwal gave me a real toe hold into a complicated situation) now I am rewarding myself with nachos while I watch Lanterns. Happy Sunday!

[Avinash Paliwal अविनाश पालीवाल @PaliwalAvi]

@RosaisDEI nachos and the Lantern are badly needed antidotes after this one. :)

glad that you found value in it.

[Avinash Paliwal अविनाश पालीवाल @PaliwalAvi]

@Chris_Iwanek 🙏🏾

[Krzysztof Iwanek @Chris_Iwanek]

Avinash Paliwal's "India's Near East" is very good. It's a book on India's policy towards Myanmar and Bangladesh: past and present. Very helpful to understand India's approach towards these countries now, as Bangladesh underwent government change and Myanmar is torn by civil war.

[Bashir Ali Abbas🇮🇳🇵🇸 @BashirAliAbbas]

This is absolutely spot on. Half the discourse on BRICS so far has been strawmen fighting in their own siloes.

[Harisundar Kumar @kumarhari_s]

“It is the trans-Atlantic order, with all its attendant values, that has collapsed rather than the 11 countries that met in New Delhi.” Prof @PaliwalAvi highlights sharply what the BRICS+ tells about the West and their collective insecurity than just the grouping itself. Read👇🏻

[Avinash Paliwal अविनाश पालीवाल @PaliwalAvi]

@DebakD @CornellPress @josefkorbel @sie_center @CSDR_India @UofDenver congratulations, Debak. this looks excellent.

[Avinash Paliwal अविनाश पालीवाल @PaliwalAvi]

‘the debate on the point, purpose, possibilities, and potency of BRICS+ has missed out on something fundamental: what this grouping’s resilience tells us about the West’

my latest @htTweets column on why scorn has paved way for suspicion about BRICS+ in Western capitals

[Avinash Paliwal अविनाश पालीवाल @PaliwalAvi]

West’s BRICS+ worries underline its own decline
https://t.co/tybeqrW2Ci

[Avinash Paliwal अविनाश पालीवाल @PaliwalAvi]

‘the debate on the point, purpose, possibilities, and potency of BRICS+ has missed out on something fundamental: what this grouping’s resilience tells us about the West’

my latest @htTweets column on why scorn has paved way for suspicion about BRICS+ in Western capitals

[Avinash Paliwal अविनाश पालीवाल @PaliwalAvi]

@SauravK1890 🙏🏾

[Saurav_Kumar @SauravK1890]

Is BRICS+ really in decline or is the West’s anxiety about it revealing something deeper?

Avinash Paliwal argues that the resilience of BRICS+ tells us more about the West’s own political and economic decline than about the grouping’s limitations.

China’s economic rise, expanding trade networks, alternative financial mechanisms and growing influence across the Global South are steadily challenging Western dominance. BRICS+ need not become an anti-Western bloc to matter.

For India, the challenge is to protect strategic autonomy while using BRICS+ as a platform for cooperation and balance.

A thought-provoking piece by @PaliwalAvi