# BRICS summit: Is the bloc truly challenging a Western-dominated world?

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- Al Jazeera, 2026-09-11 07:42 UTC
- World
- Original: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/11/bric-by-bric-has-brics-challenged-the-western-dominated-world?traffic_source=rss

> India is hosting the BRICS Leaders’ Summit as the group seeks greater influence amid divisions over the war involving Iran. Analysts say BRICS has advanced a more multipolar world and offered Global South countries alternatives to Western institutions, but dollar dominance and internal disagreements limit collective action. Its success may lie less in replacing the West than in making Western dominance harder to exercise.

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