Was the post-Cold War era time of stability or unrest?

“a committee reviews the bill and marks it up to make it more viable and to reflect interests 

the romans were initially interested in expansion via sicily (which at that time was a cultural melting pot), part of which lay under carthaginian control. at the start of the first punic war (264-241 bc), carthage was the dominant power of the western mediterranean, with an extensive maritime empire