  We calculate the leading and next-to-leading corrections to the real-time QCD
static potential in a high temperature medium in the region where bound states
transit from narrow resonances to wide ones. We find sizable contributions to
both the real and the imaginary part of the potential. The calculation involves
both loop diagrams calculated in the Hard Thermal Loop (HTL) effective theory
and power corrections to the HTL Lagrangian calculated in QCD. We compare our
results with recent lattice data.
