| My enemy's enemy: India in Afghanistan from the Soviet invasion to the US withdrawal A Paliwal Oxford University Press, 2017 | 70 | 2017 |
| Opening the black box–The making of India’s foreign policy N Blarel, A Paliwal India Review 18 (5), 457-470, 2019 | 12 | 2019 |
| New Alignments, Old Battlefield: Revisiting India’s Role in Afghanistan A Paliwal CEIP: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2017 | 12 | 2017 |
| India’s Taliban dilemma: to contain or to engage? A Paliwal Journal of Strategic Studies 40 (1-2), 35-67, 2017 | 11 | 2017 |
| India’s Afghan dilemma is tougher than ever HV Pant ORF: Observer Research Foundation, 2019 | 8 | 2019 |
| Silent Game: China's Engagement in Afghanistan A Paliwal ORF Issue Brief# 31, 2011 | 8 | 2011 |
| Afghanistan's India–Pakistan dilemma: advocacy coalitions in weak states A Paliwal Cambridge Review of International Affairs 29 (2), 465-491, 2016 | 6 | 2016 |
| A cautious balance–explaining India’s approach toward Afghanistan’s peace process A Paliwal Asian Security 16 (2), 263-280, 2020 | 5 | 2020 |
| “How many miles make an inch?” Center-state relations and the 1967 India-Burma boundary agreement A Paliwal India Review 18 (5), 596-612, 2019 | 5 | 2019 |
| Pakistan–Afghanistan Relations Since 2001: There Are No Endgames A Paliwal Pakistan at the Crossroads: Domestic Dynamics and External Pressures, 191-218, 2016 | 5* | 2016 |
| Strategy, secrecy, and external support for insurgent groups A Paliwal, P Staniland International Studies Quarterly 67 (1), sqad001, 2023 | 4 | 2023 |
| The limits of decolonisation in India’s International Thought and Practice: an introduction P Raghavan, MJ Bayly, E Leake, A Paliwal The International History Review 44 (4), 812-818, 2022 | 4 | 2022 |
| Colonial Sinews of Postcolonial Espionage-India and the Making of Ghana’s External Intelligence Agency, 1958-61 A Paliwal The International History Review 44 (4), 914-934, 2022 | 4 | 2022 |
| Foreign Policy Analysis and Indian Foreign Policy HV Pant, A Paliwal New Directions in India’s Foreign Policy: Theory and Praxis, 106-124, 2019 | 3 | 2019 |
| Politics, Strategy, and State Responses to Conflict-Generated Migration: Evidence from India A Paliwal Journal of Global Security Studies 7 (1), ogab032, 2022 | 2 | 2022 |
| Many rivers, one sea: Bangladesh and the challenge of Islamist militancy A Paliwal International Affairs 96 (2), 551-553, 2020 | 1 | 2020 |
| “A Cat’s Paw of Indian Reactionaries”? Strategic Rivalry and Domestic Politics at the India–China–Myanmar Tri-Junction A Paliwal Asian Security 16 (1), 73-89, 2020 | 1 | 2020 |
| “A Cat’s Paw of Indian Reactionaries”? Strategic Rivalry and Domestic Politics at the India–China–Myanmar Tri-Junction A Paliwal Asian Security, 2018 | 1 | 2018 |
| Reimagining Afghanistan A Paliwal International Affairs 93 (3), 701-707, 2017 | 1 | 2017 |
| Filling the Capability Deficit A Paliwal Observer Research Foundation, 2017 | 1 | 2017 |
