Social Theory and Practice: Eamonn Callan's "Love, Idolatry, and Patriotism"
Read this article, which makes the case that patriotism not only is constitutive of our identity, but patriotism is, or at least can be, virtuous.
Click https://web.archive.org/web/20080705224236/http://international-political-theory.net/3/Callan.pdf link to open resource.