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

Any shift to renewables worldwide will require considerable government intervention.

Trump’s election victory has turned regional trade negotiations upside-down, presenting US officials at APEC with an exquisite dilemma.

Trump’s foreign policy is not a threat to America’s place in the world, but it might be a threat to the current establishment.

Why we might be seeing the end of Labor-Coalition consensus on ANZUS.

We need to break out of our government buildings, our embassies, our ivory towers, and engage with people.

The New Zealand earthquake, Australia/US resettlement deal, the fearful prospect of a climate change sceptic in the White House, PNG's grim budget and more

Duke University Professor and one time White House adviser Peter Feaver describes the 'full lobotomy' the US undergoes during the transfer of executive power.

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.

We will need to engage more with Washington, not less, in order to try to influence the course of US foreign policy

Even those who previously supported the government are tiring of the CPP.

Denying Trump’s realist credentials appears to stem from some weird insecurity

Syria doesn’t have a functioning central government that could take back control of Raqqa after the defeat of ISIS.

The one upside of Trump and his isolationist tendencies could be that at long last Europe will be prompted to do more for the continent’s security.

Does the AIC provide a sufficiently independent source of intelligence, or are we still largely reliant on our allies?

Australia, like many other countries, now faces some big questions about how to respond to the election of President Trump. Here are three of them.

Like much of the world, Germans watched the election of Donald Trump with surprise and dismay.

Every day we seem to learn that Park’s longtime friend, Choi Soon-sil, the daughter of a religious cult leader, has yet another tentacle wrapped around the government.

Climate talks, cigarettes the big killer in poorer nations, Africans keen on china and more

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.

Based on the little Trump revealed during his campaign, no one in the Syrian opposition will be pleased with the US election result.

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

In bars and on the street you overhear snatches of conversation about ‘the list’ that’s been circulated by the Trump transition team, which presumably itemises a fair few of the 3000 jobs up for grabs.

In depicting American democracy as chaotic and dysfunctional, the state media has sought to bolster its narrative of domestic stability.

As Trump himself has conceded, it would be hard to change or walk away from on a deal that has been approved in a Security Council resolution.

'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.

Donald Trumps's election victory has prompted immediate speculation about the future of the US-Australia alliance and of the US presence in Asia.

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

The idea that America must always play a dominant role in upholding the 'global rules-based international order' is under serious threat.

It was 1.50am. The AP had tweeted Trump was the next president. One of the most divisive presidential campaign cycles in history was over.

‘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.

Cyclone season in Fiji, a federal constitution in the Solomon Islands, Fiji's police commissioner taking a year off, and more.

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.

We cannot passively rely on our historic and geographic closeness. If we fail to advance our relations with PNG, other actors will overtake Australia.

What effect has the 10 days of uncertainty had? Clearly Comey’s initial comments helped Trump. Was his 6 November finding too late to help Clinton?

Ohio always figures prominently in electoral college maths. No Republican has won the White House without it and no Democrat since John F Kennedy in 1960.

The fissure that has opened between Manila and Washington has given Tokyo an opportunity to play a larger regional role.

Venezuela's implosion, the US foreign assistance budget, Zimbabwe going cashless, and more.

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

At its heart, TurkStream is a project aimed at further entrenching European dependence on Russian gas

Trump was at times boastful, when talking about his business success, and at times humble: ‘I am just a messenger’. People clapped and waved their signs but he wasn’t serious and they didn’t believe it.

North Korea's nuclear deterrent needs to be acknowledged for talks to resume.