"sanctions risk" is correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to the potential for penalties or restrictions imposed by a government or international organization, typically in response to a violation of laws, regulations, or agreements. Example: The company's decision to continue doing business with a sanctioned country presents a significant sanctions risk.
Economic sanctions risk misfiring, by immiserating innocent people and boosting nationalists.
So, the greatest sanctions risk is a long term one; that nation-states that desire to displace the U.S. dollar as a global trading currency might do so slowly, by creating a functioning parallel value-transfer system that does not move U.S. dollars or go through New York City.
Because Rosneft itself is not off-limits to Americans, another company executive could have signed the contract with no sanctions risk to Exxon, said David Mortlock, who was a State Department and White House sanctions official under Obama.
Political commentators have warned that the sanctions risk strengthening the hand of powerful, nationalistic individuals in Putin's inner circle eager to roll back Western influence and investment in Russia.
The White House rejected criticism that sanctions risked escalated the crisis, insisting there remained a way for Russia to defuse the situation if it chose.
The move, which reflects growing international pressure on Hezbollah following a recent intensification of U.S. sanctions — risks disturbing the fragile country's uneasy peace.
In the past, western sanctions risked driving target countries into the arms of the Soviet block; these days, Russia can be persuaded to go along with sanctions on pariahs like Iraq, so they are more effective.
"The monitor also identifies areas where new compliance policies have not yet been implemented, including areas where the lack of due diligence currently exposes HSBC to serious money laundering and sanctions risks".
Overly harsh economic sanctions risks driving Russia into the arms of the Chinese for economic reasons and the political reasons that almost always follow, thereby disrupting our capacity to play off these countries against each other as President Richard Nixon and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger first envisioned.
And that's in part because I've thought that what Europe would do actually was this either they wouldn't have a legal requirement from EU that European companies would want to respect U.S. you know sanction risks and so therefore make their own reductions.
At issue for the other diplomats is whether to push for tough sanctions and risk a Chinese abstention.
