Obama faces any number of perilous foreign policy and national security challenges with the potential to wreak havoc perhaps greater than any of the domestic issues he must navigate.
Europe is more united now, but a new divide nevertheless threatens to emerge, predicated in part on divergent approaches to steering economic policy during perilous financial times.
It is one of the more dramatic, and some analysts would say perilous, shifts in foreign policy by the new administration.
But in such perilous economic times, trade-policy conventions can hardly remain sacrosanct.
But the fact that President Obama, despite all of his promises to the contrary, has maintained nearly all of the Bush administration's detainee policies shows the perilous complexity of these issues — nearly 10 years later.
Kitzinger (2002) demonstrated that at the height of media attention to paedophilia in the UK, a perilous entwinement between media and policy-makers existed and it was unclear whose activities drove whose agenda.
However, the report also found that: Border enforcement policies drove migrants to perilous crossing routes, resulting in substantial deaths, which official tallies under-reported.
Even if you work out all the policy kinks, the politics are perilous.
In the summer, Chancellor Angela Merkel announced an open-door policy for people making the perilous journey across Europe and the Middle East.
Grant Shapps, the Tory chairman, said the government was not ignoring the country's perilous economic position by developing a new policy on Europe.
