%0 Journal Article %T Chasing electric flux in hot QCD %A Schroder %A Y. %J High Energy Physics - Phenomenology %D 2008 %I %R 10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2009.01.040 %X In this talk, I present the status of attempts to analyze the behavior of the so-called spatial 't Hooft loop, which can be taken as an order parameter for the deconfinement phase transition in pure SU(N) gauge theory. While lattice data show a strikingly universal scaling of extracted k-string tensions for various values of k and N, the analytic approach to these observables might need some refinement. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/0810.2718