  Characterizing the vacuum of a thermalized SU(3) Yang-Mills theory in the
dual Ginzburg-Landau description, the possibility of topologically nontrivial,
classical monopole fields in the deconfining phase is explored. These fields
are assumed to be Bogomoln'yi-Prasad-Sommerfield (BPS) saturated solutions
along the compact, euclidean time dimension. A corresponding, gauge invariant
monopole interaction is constructed. The model passes first tests. In
particular, a reasonable value for the critical temperature is obtained, and
the partial persistence of nonperturbative features in the deconfining phase of
SU(3) Yang-Mills theory, as it is measured on the lattice, follows naturally.
