出于所有这些原因，贯穿二十世纪第三个四分之一的稳定和可预测性的全球时代似乎戛然而止，随之而来的是一个不确定性突出的时期。
For all these reasons, the golden age of stability and predictability that was the third quarter of the twentieth century seemed to have abruptly drawn to a close, to be succeeded by a period of greatly heightened uncertainty.