The Pomeron in QCD

In the framework of anisotropic Chromodynamics, a non-perturbative realization of QCD, we develop the Low-Nussinov picture of the Pomeron. In this approach all the usual problems of low pT perturbative calculations (infrared divergence) are naturally absent. Thus, we are able to perform an ab initio calculation of the hadron-hadron total cross section. The result is a cross section of the same magnitude as indicated experimentally and approximately energy-independent (with a log2 s growth). We further discuss the pT dependence of the hadron-hadron elastic-scattering cross section, which displays all the experimentally observed features.