The phrase "despotic governments" refers to rulers or governments that have unlimited power and use it in a harsh and unfair way, often disregarding the rights and welfare of their citizens. Full definition
As the people of Ukraine rose up against the kleptocratic and despotic government of Viktor Yanukovych last year, in the Maidan movement of national moral and civic renewal, the Ukrainian Orthodox Churches faced a dramatic choice: stand in pastoral solidarity with the people, or stand with the state that was brutally repressing Ukrainian citizen - reformers? (firstthings.com)
The solution, of course, is to set up a global despotic government, just as proposed in the Copenhagen protocol. (science.slashdot.org)
But a sudden reduction in present population (the most likely result of another abrupt cooling) via war, famine, and disease would leave a world of small despotic governments that all hated their neighbors because of genocidal warfare during the crash. (WilliamCalvin.com)