  Nonperturbative and perturbative interaction mechanisms of Wilson loops in
gluodynamics are studied within the background field formalism. The first one
operates when distance between minimal surfaces of the loops is small and may
be important for sea quark effects and strong decay processes. The second
mechanism -- perturbative interaction in nonperturbative confining background
is found to be physically dominant for all loop configurations characteristic
of scattering process. It reduces to perturbative gluon exchanges at small
distances, while at larger distances it corresponds to the t-channel exchange
of (reggeized) glueball states.
  Comparison to other approaches is made and possible physical applications are
discussed.
