To the South from South America

This material provides a review of the new monograph «The Antarctic. Global agenda and the interests of Latin American nations» (2023) on the topic of the Antarctic presence of Latin American nations, prepared by a team of Russian academics. The review describes the content of the work, evaluates its main provisions and conclusions, and the methods used. It is shown that the issue of the participation of Latin American states in international effort concerning Antarctica is indeed relevant and, at the same time, little developed, and the reviewed book reveals it at once systematically and in detail, based on multifactorial and multilevel analysis. The study places great emphasis on the basics of the international legal status of Antarctica, provides an overview of national Antarctic programs and strategies, and also pays attention to the technical basis for the latter (the state of the Antarctic fleets of the Latin American countries). While highly appreciating the fundamental work of the authors’ collective, the reviewer highlights a number of points that, in her opinion, have not received sufficient coverage in the monograph.