  We study a 7-dimensional brane world scenario with a Ricci-flat 3-brane
residing in the core of a composite monopole defect, i.e. a defect composed of
a 'tHooft-Polyakov and a global monopole. Admitting a direct interaction
between the two bosonic sectors of the theory, we analyse the structure of the
space-time in the limits of small, respectively large direct interaction
coupling constant. For large direct interaction, the global monopole disappears
from the system and leaves behind a negative cosmological constant in the bulk
such that gravity-localising solutions are possible without the a priori
introduction of a bulk cosmological constant.
