Layna Mosley is an American political scientist. She is a professor of political science in the Department of Politics at Princeton University and the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs. She studies international relations, particularly the relationship between domestic politics and the global economy. Education and positions Mosley attended Rollins College, where she graduated with a BA degree in international relations in 1993. She then studied political science at Duke University, where she obtained an MA degree in 1996 and a PhD in 1999. In 1999, Mosley became the Thomas J. and Robert T. Rolfs Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame. In 2004, she joined the political science faculty at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In 2017, Mosley visited the Hertie School on a Fulbright Faculty Fellow Award. In 2020, she became a Professor of Politics and International Affairs at the Princeton University Department of Politics and the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs. Research In 2003, Mosley published the book Global Capital and National Governments. In Global Capital and National Governments, Mosley examines the influence of financial markets on the capacity of national governments to implement their preferred policies, in the context of the increasing economic integration of capital markets. Mosley identifies a causal process in which the global financial market sets the price of international borrowing in response to government policy, doing so in a state of information asymmetry, and then governments react to the market's assessment of their policy. This model allows Mosley to study questions like what the policy preferences of foreign investors are and how governments can effectively enact policy in an era when globalization has made capital quite internationally mobile. Mosley also focuses on the variation in how much financial markets can affect policy across different countries, arguing that markets have a narrow but strong influence on the governments of developed economies but a broader and more volatile effect on the governments of emerging markets. This variation can be attributed both to the way that markets react to policies in different countries and to the internal policymaking dynamics of each country; for example, Mosley argues that the details of microeconomic policy in developed economies is too costly for financial markets to take into account, but in emerging markets it is a central concern of theirs. In Global Capital and National Governments, Mosley employs a