Warren Dockter

Warren Dockter (born 1980) is an author and historian. He was a Research Fellow at Clare Hall, University of Cambridge and is now a lecturer at Aberystwyth University in International Politics.

Dockter is a member of the council of the British Institute at Ankara.

Biography

Warren Dockter is a graduate of the University of Tennessee and gained his PhD at the University of Nottingham. His book Churchill and the Islamic World: Orientalism, Empire and Diplomacy in the Middle East (2015) challenged notions surrounding Winston Churchill's Islamophobia. According to Dockter, Churchill's often quoted criticism of Islam was written during a time of a fundamentalist revolt in Sudan and this statement does not reflect his full views of Islam as a religion, which were "often paradoxical and complex." He could be critical but at times "romanticized" the Islamic world; he exhibited great "respect, understanding and magnanimity." Churchill had a fascination of Islam and Islamic civilization. Winston Churchill's future sister-in-law expressed concerns about his fascination by stating, "[p]lease don't become converted to Islam; I have noticed in your disposition a tendency to orientalism." However, Dockter also asserted that Churchill "never seriously considered converting" to Islam.

Notably, Dockter worked with Boris Johnson as his research assistant for the book the Churchill Factor: How One Man made History.

Publications

• Holt, Andrew; Dockter, Warren (2017), Private secretaries to the prime minister : foreign affairs from Churchill to Thatcher, Routledge studies in modern British history, 20., Abingdon, Oxon, ISBN 1409441806
• Dockter, Warren (2015), Churchill and the Islamic world : Orientalism, empire and diplomacy in the Middle East, London, ISBN 1780768184
• Dockter, Warren (2015), Winston Churchill at the Telegraph, Aurum Press, ISBN 1781314527