  We discuss the effects of rotation on confining properties of gauge theories
focusing on compact electrodynamics in two spatial dimensions as an
analytically tractable model. We show that at finite temperature, the rotation
leads to a deconfining transition starting from a certain distance from the
rotation axis. A uniformly rotating confining system possesses, in addition to
the usual confinement and deconfinement phases, a mixed inhomogeneous phase
which hosts spatially separated confinement and deconfinement regions. The
phase diagram thus has two different deconfining temperatures. The first
deconfining temperature can be made arbitrarily low by sufficiently rapid
rotation while the second deconfining temperature is largely unaffected by the
rotation. Implications of our results for the phase diagram of QCD are
presented. We point out that uniformly rotating quark-gluon plasma should
therefore experience an inverse hadronization effect when the hadronization
starts from the core of the rotating plasma rather than from its boundary.
