<!doctype html public «-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en»> http-equiv=content-type> Ever since the 1950s there has been a “Conservative Internationale” in Western Europe that has received virtually no public notice. Johannes Grossmann traces the intersecting paths of major conservative politicians, entrepreneurs, and journalists in multiple transnational elite circles, their influence on decision-making processes, their contribution to the Europeanization of political thought, and their shifting ideologies from 1945 to 1990.