  In this review, we provide a short outlook of some of the currently most
popular pictures and promising approaches to non-perturbative physics and
confinement in gauge theories. A qualitative and by no means exhaustive
discussion presented here covers such key topics as the phases of QCD matter,
the order parameters for confinement, the central vortex and monopole pictures
of the QCD vacuum structure, fundamental properties of the string tension,
confinement realisations in gauge-Higgs and Yang-Mills theories, magnetic
order/disorder phase transition among others.
