In contrast, weaker states have tended to lose relative power in the face of expanded globality. Clearly, for example, the Japanese state has generally been able to exert far more influence in global spaces than the Bolivian state. The authorities in Burkina Faso or El Salvador have had very limited capacities to manage global flows in regard to their respective countries, with but a handful of relevant experts and hardly any of the necessary equipment and data. Indeed, with cruel irony most new, post-colonial states (established in the time of accelerated globalization and the rise of supraterritoriality) obtained Westphalian sovereignty in name at the very moment that it ceased to be realizable in practice.