While Giorgio Agamben’s political theory of the exception received a great deal of attention in the early 2000s, he is once again riding a wave in International Relations theory as the growing community of “theologies of the International” investigates the many contributions of theological inquiry for world politics. At the same time as his works provide a common point of conversation between critical IR and political theology, the latter field is undergoing a profound shift to answer to Agamben’s call for a “double paradigm” of political and economic theology. This article investigates Jacqueline (Int Polit Sociol 12:328–345, 2018) theory of technocratic exceptionalism as a moment where these waters meet. At the very moment where IR theorists seek to draw lessons from political theology, Best’s concept of technocratic exceptionalism offers an opportunity for the completion of the double paradigm of sovereignty.

虽然乔治·阿甘本的例外政治理论在 2000 年代初期受到了极大的关注，但随着“国际神学”社区的不断壮大，他再次在国际关系理论中掀起了一股热潮政治。在他的作品提供批判 IR 和政治神学之间的共同对话点的同时，后者领域正在发生深刻的转变，以回应阿甘本对政治和经济“双重范式”的呼吁。  神学。本文研究了杰奎琳 (Int Polit Sociol 12:328–345, 2018) 的技术官僚例外论理论作为这些水域相遇的时刻。在国际关系理论家试图从政治神学中汲取教训的那一刻，贝斯特的技术官僚例外论概念为完成双重主权范式提供了机会。