The Geopolitical and Economic Impact of BRICS on the Middle East

The recent expansion of BRICS into Middle Eastern countries signifies an important shift in global power. The research is aimed at comprehensively exploring various aspects of such influence concerning the geopolitical and economic dynamics of the Middle East. The first part of the article focuses on how BRICS membership brings about a shift in the regional power balance that could be detrimental to the long-standing dominance of Western powers and therefore alter the US-Middle East relations. The second part of the paper highlights the role of BRICS in presenting itself as the mediator both in cases of stability and conflict resolution in the region and draws attention as well to the possible limitations and difficulties arising from the existence of different aims within the group. The case study of Iran, Saudi Arabia, and UAE has been discussed in this article to investigate the relations between BRICS countries are explained by their importance in the contemporary global geopolitical and economic context. All these countries have a significant influence on regional and international affairs and therefore are valuable to analyzing the external relations of BRICS. It is concluded that the BRICS membership destabilizes the traditional balance of power in the Middle East, dethroning the Western powers and restructuring the US-Middle East relations. BRICS' influence on the Middle East is geopolitical and economic, with the transformative shift in global power dynamics, offering both opportunities and challenges for regional stability, economic growth, and international relations.