Congratulations to Joe Hockey for anticipating Trump's win. But perhaps it was not simply a matter of elites being out of touch, as his analysis suggests.

As I facetiously said on a number of occasions during my recent abortive run for the Senate, you cannot have too many generals in parliament.

Local circumstances, individual talent and a dash of pure chance might have brought about the political results we have seen across the world, not populism.

Forget recounts and calls for the electoral board to be established. Donald Trump played by the electoral rules and won.

A Trump association risks squandering hard-earned respectability.

It’s simply unrealistic to think businesses will favour American workers over the low labour costs delivered by imports and technology.

The 2001 attacks showed how much easier it is for a President to generate bi-partisan support to wage war than it is to create a consensus on universal health care.

The most immediate challenge facing Australian officials is determining how likely Trump is to start a trade war with China.

US institutions are wholly unprepared to deal with a candidate they have never envisioned.

Under Trump we're likely to see a recalibrated US offshore balancing in Asia that won't mean either careless provocation of China or a total US drawdown.

When elections or referenda are decided by the emergence of those who do not habitually vote, many of the assumptions of the median voter theory go out of the window.

What little the two men share is a perception of the nature of the West’s present moment, as well as of its origins.

What Trump means for the Iran nuclear deal, globalisation, India, NATO, domestic US institutions and more.

'Blue Feed, Red Feed', the reaction in China, Canadian and New Zealand soft power, and more.

A lot will go wrong over the coming months and years, as America’s role in the world, including and perhaps especially in our region, swerves off the rails.

The reason Trump did so well is not because of racism, xenophobia or ‘the basket of deplorables’. It’s because Obama’s presidency (and Bush’s before him) has been a total failure.

Most Indian policymakers would probably have preferred a Clinton victory, given her long engagement with India.

‘I don’t think of Donald as a Republican president, I think of him as a businessmen. None of those effing politicians have a clue'

Spirits are high at the Cuyahoga County Republican watch party in Cleveland City.

The American way is to make sure no authority is foisted upon the people, which means said people face a very long list of choices at the polling booth.

US officials are signaling that any cyber attack that impacts the election could result in a proportional response.

Trump is a demagogue straight out of Thucydides or Plato’s fears about democracy: unstable, vindictive, lazy, short-tempered, self-aggrandising, and narcissistic.

US vice president Joe Biden is sick of foreign leaders looking him in the eye and asking whether he can deliver.

Peter D Feaver says exaggerated fears have elbowed out meaningful foreign policy debate during this race to the White House and that will make will make the job of the next president harder.

Trump has absolutely nothing to gain by defending the Kremlin. Russian citizens don’t vote in US elections.

The first of three presidential debates offered a lot of fireworks, but little to change the state of the race.