The last chapter treated the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO)'s reaction to three crises occurring in its very own region. It revealed that the organization invokes the same ‘rules’ for international relations in all of these conflicts. Furthermore, it noted that the SCO and its member states in all three cases acted in accordance with the organization's formalized norms, including an interpretation of non-interference that corresponds with the interpretation of the norm China promotes unilaterally. This chapter turns to three international security issues outside the immediate SCO region: the Syrian Civil War, the Russo-Georgian War of 2008, and the Ukraine crisis and war since 2014. SCO member state Russia has been militarily involved in each of these conflicts, which runs counter to some of the most characteristic norms of the SCO, such as non-interference, non-military action, and searching for peaceful, diplomatic solutions. Thus, the analysis that follows not only highlights the SCO's response to non-regional issues but also provides empirical insight into what happens when one of the most powerful members of a regional organization – in this case, Russia – acts in contradiction to a norm promoted by the other leader and fails to ‘institutionalize’ the norm ‘in action’. The investigation sheds new light on China's ability to promote its norms with the help of the SCO and qualifies some of the findings of the previous chapter. After examining the organization's reactions to the three external crises separately, I will discuss and summarize the SCO's norms ‘in action’ in the context of all six crises treated in this and the previous chapter.