  We describe a monopole-like order parameter for the confinement-deconfinement
transition in gauge theories where dynamical charges and monopoles coexist. It
has been recently proposed in a collaboration with J. Froehlich. It avoids an
inconsistency in the treatment of small scales present in earlier definitions
of monopole fields by respecting Dirac's quantization condition for
electromagnetic fluxes. An application to SU(2) lattice Yang-Mills theory is
outlined, naturally fitting in the 't Hooft scenario for confinement.
