%0 Journal Article %T Kosovo declaration of Independence and the International Community - an assessment by the Kosovo Monitoring Task Force %A Ugo Caruso %J Journal on Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe %D 2008 %I European Centre for Minority Issues %X This paper provides an overview of the roles played by international organizations with relation to Kosovo independence in the months prior to the declaration of independence in March 2008, based on data collected by the Kosovo Monitoring Task Force in the frame of the MIRICO project. %K Kosovo %K independence %K international organizations %U http://www.ecmi.de/fileadmin/downloads/publications/JEMIE/2008/2-2008-Caruso.pdf