  We provide a fully analytical determination of the perturbative
quark-antiquark static energy in position space as defined by a restricted
Fourier transformation from momentum to position space. Such a determination is
complicated by the fact that the static energy genuinely decomposes into a
strictly perturbative part (made up of contributions $\sim\alpha_s^n$, with
$n\in\mathbb{N}$) which is conventionally evaluated in momentum space, and a
so-called ultrasoft part (including terms $\sim\alpha_s^{n+m}\ln^m\alpha_s$,
with $n\geq3$ and $m\in\mathbb{N}$) which, conversely, is naturally evaluated
in position space. Our approach facilitates the explicit determination of the
static energy in position space at the accuracy with which the perturbative
potential in momentum space is known, i.e., presently up to order $\alpha_s^4$.
