  We investigate confinement from new global defect structures in three spatial
dimensions. The global defects arise in models described by a single real
scalar field, governed by special scalar potentials. They appear as
electrically, magnetically or dyonically charged structures. We show that they
induce confinement, when they are solutions of effective QCD-like field
theories in which the vacua are regarded as color dielectric media with an
anti-screening property. As expected, in three spatial dimensions the
monopole-like global defects generate the Coulomb potential as part of several
confining potentials.
