ABSTRACT
I interpret my task in this chapter as being the challenging one of not only examining the possible relevance of Karl Popper's The Open Society and Its Enemies (OSE) to political and economic events in Burma, but also the reciprocal one of assessing what light the Burmese experience might cast on the applicability of Popper's analysis, based as we know almost exclusively on European conditions and concerns, to a part of the world entirely outside his scholarly interests. As I hope to convince the reader, we can all learn much more from looking at Popper and Burma together than would at first sight have seemed plausible.
