Globalization from below, or grassroots globalization. Additionally, globalization from above references a world where mobility transcends borders. In grassroots globalization, mobility is there, but it is a mobility despite borders. In the first instance, the Silk Road is said to have a history going back some two millennia. In this longue narrative, modern connectivity serves as a precursor to today’s globalization from above. In recent years, such narratives of connectivity—in the form of successive Silk Road imaginary—have served the purposes of states seeking to deepen economic and political cooperation across Afro-Eurasia. China since the Cold War is an obvious example of a state that has sought to capitalize on successive framing of the Silk Road, although other Eurasian states, such as Afghanistan, Armenia, Georgia, Iran, Japan, Pakistan, and the post-Soviet Central Asian states have from time to time capitalized on their locations at what are imagined as Asian crossroads. These desires are state projects, in which steadily deepening.